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  • Sampler (Italy), ca. 1820

    At the top, Viva Gesu, followed by alphabets and numerals divided by small floral bands. In the lower register, symbols of the crucifixion, a grape arbor, deer, and a house.

  • Sampler (USA), 1797

    Embroidered in colored silks on a natural linen ground. A single alphabet at the top is followed by a verse: In the center, Adam and Eve are flanking a tree…

  • Sampler (England), 1774

    Register of the members of the Dundas family worked in black cross-stitch in the upper third; a large house with gardens below, flanked by flowering trees; stylized running vine border.

  • Sampler (USA), 1831

    A large house with trees, flowers, birds, butterflies and a verse: This work in hand my friends may have When I am dead and in my grave And when my…

  • Sampler (USA), 1818

    In the center, a floral wreath contains the inscription: Rebecca Barnes 5th Mo 23 1818 Symmetrically arranged motifs of flowers and birds fill the field; there is one alphabet at…

  • Sampler (possibly Sweden), 1702

    Alphabets and letters at the top divided by an embroidered band with traditional scattered motifs including; Adam and Eve and the tree of knowledge; crowned initials; urns with flowers, a…

  • Sampler (USA), 1780–89

    Three alphabets, two upper case and one lower case, all without the letter “J”, ampersand, numerals and assorted trial letters, and the inscription: Love Bickford her sampler wrought in the…

  • Sampler, 2015

    Black silk substrate marked into nine sections by lines of running stitch in red polyester thread. Each section has different abstract pattern motif embroidered in white cotton thread.

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