1923.39: Sampler
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1923.39
- People
-
Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Sampler
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- textile
- Date
- 19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, Mexico
- Culture
- Mexican
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/215146
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Plain woven linen with silk embroidery
- Technique
- Embroidery
- Dimensions
- 97.8 x 74.6 x 97.79 cm (38 1/2 x 29 3/8 x 38 1/2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Professor William M. Davis, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1923
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Professor William M. Davis
- Accession Year
- 1923
- Object Number
- 1923.39
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Sampler embroidered (cross, cut and drawn work) with different bands of various floral, figural, geometric, and animal motifs in multicoloured silk on a plain-woven linen ground; satin backing.
Verification Level
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