Sampler

Sarah Yeakel, American1806

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

A house on top of a hill which rises to the right, with weeping willow trees and other trees, a fence, sheep, a peacock, flying birds and an alphabet; surrounded by an angular strawberry vine border.

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Details

Title: Sampler
Creator: Sarah Yeakel, American
Date Created: 1806
Type: Sampler
Rights: Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe
Medium: Medium: silk and cotton embroidery, linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, stem and rococo stitches on plain weave foundation
Provenance: By 1941, Mrs. Henry E. Coe (Eva Johnston Coe)1941, Museum for the Arts of Decoration of the Cooper Union
Inscribed: Sarah Yeakel's Work 1806
Exhibitions: Hallmark. Stitched in Time, May 14-July 18, 1969.
Dimensions: H x W: 43 x 57 cm (16 15/16 x 22 7/16 in.)
Bibliography: Ethel Stanwood Bolton and Eva Johnston Coe, American Samplers (Boston: The Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1921) 245.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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