Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- 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 9 year of her age
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Embroiderer
- Love Bickford, American
- Date
- 1780–89
- Credit Line
- Gift of Anonymous Donor from the Fraser/Martin Collection
- Medium
- Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave foundation, with borders of overcasting with deflected element
- Dimensions
- H x W: 30.5 x 27.3 cm (12 x 10 3/4 in.)
- Type
- embroidery & stitching
- Sampler
