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Sampler
Sarah C. Neal, American1826
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Bands of alphabets and numerals with geometric cross borders, and an inscription. In the lower half, baskets of flowering vines and birds fill the field. With a black and white diamond border.
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Details
- Title: Sampler
- Creator: Sarah C. Neal, American
- Date Created: 1826
- Physical Dimensions: w460 x h470 cm
- Type: Sampler
- Rights: Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe
- Medium: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, satin, and stem 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: Sarah C. Neal aged 18 Newmarket
- Dimensions: H x W: 47 x 46 cm (18 1/2 x 18 1/8 in.)
- Bibliography: Ethel Stanwood Bolton and Eva Johnston Coe, American Samplers (Boston: The Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1921) 200.
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