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Decorative arts
Needlework Sampler
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- Date
- 1786
- Accession number
- 2022.25.7
- Maker
- Martha Bradley(Opens in new tab) (American, born 1774)
- Dimensions
- 13 × 10 1/2 × 1/4 in. (33 × 26.7 × 0.6 cm.)
- Medium
- Silk thread on a linen ground
- Description
- A sampler with the inscription: MARTHA BRADLEY BORN JANUARY THE 31 IN YEAR 1774 AGD TWELVE YEARS. Dracut, Massachusetts, 1786, worked in silk threads on a linen ground, with rows of alphabets over signature lines, surrounded by solid-stitched floral borders on three sides and lower geometric border
