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Sampler
Abigail Adams1789
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
The field has scattered motifs including house, a peacock, urns of flowers, birds, and Adam and Eve with the Tree of Knowledge. Surrounded on three sides with a geometric border and on all four with a strawberry vine border. With the date 1789 at the top and the inscription Abigail Adams her work New York at the bottom.
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Details
- Title: Sampler
- Creator: Abigail Adams, American
- Date Created: 1789
- Location Created: New York, USA
- Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/75313
- Medium: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave foundation
- Credit line: Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe
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