Sampler

1730

Medium: Medium: silk, linen Technique: embroidered
Genre: Embroidery & stitching
Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Ten different alphabets fill the top half of the sampler, some heavily embellished. Spot motifs below include human figures, flowers, hearts, birds, geometrical shapes, and the large initials AA.

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"Aluminum City" Housing, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, 1941-1942

Unknown, 1937

Protest Surrounding the Construction of Narita Airport

Unknown, 1962

Text Page

Unknown, 826

La Bièvre-Bd. d'Italie (La Bievre, Boulevard d'Italie)

Unknown, 1901

Untitled (the cemetery at Bazeilles (1870-1871) after the Battle of Bazeilles)

Unknown, 1914

A Kneeling Angel

Unknown, 1472

[Seated Japanese Woman]

Unknown, 1862

[New Palace, Potsdam]

Unknown, 1870

Ireland. Lo Gh-eske. A Misty Morning. Co. Donegal.

Unknown, 1860

Shiva Ravananugrahamurti; woman holding a flywhisk; rearing yali

Unknown, 1790

Charity, Hospitals: United States. New York. New York City. Metropolitan Hospital, Blackwell's Island: Metropolitan Hospital, New York City: Tuberculosis Infirmary.

Unknown, 1895

Female Head

Unknown, -399