Sampler

Elizabeth Rowe Terry, American1828

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Scene showing a man and woman in formal dress, labeled as Adam and Eve, another lady and gentleman (unfinished), baskets of flowers and fruit, flowering trees, birds, and an inscription, arranged in four horizontal rows and enclosed in a simple zigzag border.

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Title: Sampler
Creator: Elizabeth Rowe Terry, American
Date Created: 1828
Physical Dimensions: w410 x h390 cm
Type: Sampler
Rights: Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe
Medium: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross 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: Elizabeth Rowe Terry 1828
Exhibitions: New York, New York, Museum of Early American Folk Arts. Collector's Choice Part II, May 12 to July 5, 1970.
Dimensions: H x W: 39 x 41 cm (15 3/8 x 16 1/8 in.)
Bibliography: Ethel Stanwood Bolton and Eva Johnston Coe, American Samplers (Boston: The Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1921) 229.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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