Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- An alphabet at the top followed by "Fair par Marguerite Maurel de Pezenas agee dei ans chex les demoiselles Bedard lei Fevrier 1834". Numbers and motifs of an altar with sacred monogram, the cross with symbols of the passion and other religious emblems.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Embroiderer
- Marguerite Maurel
- Student at
- Misses Bedard's School
- Date
- 1834
- Credit Line
- Gift of Anonymous Donor from the Fraser/Martin Collection
- Medium
- Medium: silk embroidery, cotton warp, linen weft Technique: embroidered in counted cross, stem and satin stitches on plain weave foundation
- Dimensions
- H x W: 25.4 x 29.5 cm (10 x 11 5/8 in.)
- Type
- embroidery & stitching
- Sampler
