Sampler

Anna Williams1806

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Bands of alphabets and numerals, date and inscription, and a cornucopia of flowers in an oval framework with Taunton, September. Enclosed on three sides by stylized floral border, and on the fourth by a Greek fret border. Embroidered in colored silks on a black ground.

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Title: Sampler
Creator: Anna Williams
Date Created: 1806
Physical Dimensions: w290 x h410 cm
Type: Sampler
Rights: Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe
Medium: Medium: silk embroidery, linen warp, wool weft Technique: embroidered in cross, chain, rococo, and eyelet 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: Anna Williams age 11August 13, 1806Taunton September
Exhibitions: New York, New York, Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Embroidered Samplers in the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1984.
Dimensions: H x W: 41 x 29 cm (16 1/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
Bibliography: Ethel Stanwood Bolton and Eva Johnston Coe, American Samplers (Boston: The Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1921) 242.

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