The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Embroidered Sampler

Embroidered Sampler

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: inscribed: [three alphabets]; inscribed at bottom: RUTH ROGERS / ENDED THIS / SAMPLE IN THE / 8TH YEAR OF HER / AGE 1739
Provenance

Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., New York, until 1953; Barbara Schiff Sinauer, New York, 1953–1984
See also
Who
Ruth Rogers (1)
What
Silk (32,922)

Textiles (32,752)

Needlework (10,342)

Linen (7,486)

Embroidery (5,467)

Samplers (988)
Where
North and Central America (81,404)

United States (78,109)

Massachusetts (1,048)

Boston (439)
When
A.D. 1600-1800 (66,179)
In the Museum
American Decorative Arts (11,825)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
American Needlework in the Eighteenth Century

The United States, 1600–1800 A.D.