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Sampler
Elisabeth Pecker, American1750
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Several bands of alphabets separated by small geometric cross borders, followed by an inscription:Elisabeth pecker is my name and with my needle I wroght the same 1750Elisabeth Pecker Born July 31 in the year of our Lord 1733The lower half has a scene with fruit trees, birds, animals, and a female figure. With a strawberry vine border on the two vertical edges.
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Details
- Title: Sampler
- Creator: Elisabeth Pecker, American
- Creator Lifespan: 1733
- Date Created: 1750
- Type: Sampler
- Rights: Bequest of Emily Coe Stowell from the Coe Collection
- Medium: Medium: silk, metal-wrapped silk, and hair embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in stem, satin, surface satin, cross, running, eyelet and couched stitches with appliqué on plain weave foundation .
- Provenance: Ex. coll. Mrs. Henry E. Coe (Eva Johnston Coe)
- Inscribed: Elisabeth Pecker is my name and with my needle I wroght the same 1750Elisabeth Pecker Born July 31 in the year of our Lord 1733
- Exhibitions: Embroidered Samplers, Cooper-Hewitt Museum 1984
- Dimensions: H x W: 51 x 40 cm (20 1/16 x 15 3/4 in.)
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