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Sampler
Elizabeth Sickfrits, American1824
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Picture format, with a large brick house and white picket fence, flanked by a weeping willow and another large tree, with trees also behind the house. Surrounded by a wide floral border. Inscription at the bottom.
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Details
- Title: Sampler
- Creator: Elizabeth Sickfrits, American
- Date Created: 1824
- Type: Sampler
- Rights: Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe
- Medium: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross and chain 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: Respectfully presented to Joseph and Sarah Sichfrits by their affectionate daughter Elizabeth Sichfrits done in the 11th year of her age 1824
- Dimensions: H x W: 41 x 56 cm (16 1/8 x 22 1/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Ethel Stanwood Bolton and Eva Johnston Coe, American Samplers (Boston: The Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1921) 222.
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