The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Embroidered Sampler

Embroidered Sampler

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: inscribed in upper center: With / sheba's queen ye / american fair to adorn your / mind bend all your care; inscribed in lower center: MARY MUNRO'S / Work done in / Providence
Provenance

Barbara Schiff Sinauer, New York, died 1984
See also
Who
Mary Munro (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)

Rhode Island (165)

Providence (62)
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.