Sampler

Eliza Steelman, American1816

Scene showing a house flanked by two trees, a garden with a fence, a dog, birds and butterflies. Surrounded by a rose border and inscription.

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Title: Sampler
Creator: Eliza Steelman, American
Date Created: 1816
Type: Sampler
Rights: Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe
Medium: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, tent and satin 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: Eliza Steelman's work Greenwich School 1816
Dimensions: H x W: 53.3 x 54.5 cm (21 x 21 7/16 in.)
Bibliography: Ethel Stanwood Bolton and Eva Johnston Coe, American Samplers (Boston: The Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1921) 385.

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