Sampler

Unknown American, American

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1790-1795

Silk on linen, embroidery

Overall: 15 11/16 × 16 3/8 in. (39.8 × 41.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Joan and Victor Johnson in memory of Theodore Foulk

T.990.35

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Textile: Sampler

Research Area

Decorative Arts

Not on view

Inscriptions

Not signed.

Course History

HIST 9.1, Empires and Colonies in North America, Paul Musselwhite, Fall 2014

Exhibition History

Lessons Stitched in Silk: Samplers from the Canterbury Region of New Hampshire, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1990.

Publication History

Lessons Stitched in Silk: Samplers from the Canterbury Region of New Hampshire. (Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art), number 6 in Checklist of the Exhibition (not illustrated), page 18.

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