Sampler
Cooper Hewitt

Sampler

Helen Grindlay · 1808

Medium: silk, wool Technique: embroidered in cross stitch
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Religious sampler with a strawberry vine border has two lengthy inscriptions on the left side. Alphabets along the top with the Ten Commandments below on the left. Alongside is a box containing a series of initials. On the lower left is Genesis Chap XXII, the story Abraham and Isaac, illustrated in embroidery just below.

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