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Sampler
Mary Chapel1819
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Bands of alphabets and numerals embroidery in many colors, separated by narrow geometric borders. Followed by the inscription and verse: This work of mine my friends may have when I am dead and in my grave
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Details
- Title: Sampler
- Creator: Mary Chapel
- Date Created: 1819
- Physical Dimensions: w280 x h325 cm
- Type: Sampler
- Rights: Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
- Medium: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, eyelet, and herringbone stitches on plain weave foundation
- Provenance: By 1929, Alexander W. DrakeBy 1929, American Art Galleries1929 - 1981, Gertrude M. Oppenheimer1981, Cooper-Hewitt Museum
- Inscribed: Mary Chapel, Lydia Sata Lee Instructress A.D. 1819 Mary Chapel's sampler compleated August 17th
- Dimensions: H x W: 32.4 x 28 cm (12 3/4 x 11 in.)
- Bibliography: Ethel Stanwood Bolton and Eva Johnston Coe, American Samplers (Boston: The Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1921) 137.
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