Object Details
- Shermer, Elizabeth
- Description
- One lower-case alphabet; six block alphabets; 26 letters. Numbers 1 through 17. Three practice eyelets, one worked in red cotton, two worked in red wool. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, tent, four-sided, eyelet, upright cross. THREAD COUNT: warp 26, weft 39/in.
- Inscription:
- "Elizabeth Shermer's
work done in the
eleventh year of her
age
1833" - Background:
- This may be the Elizabeth Shermer who was born to Anthony and Anna Barbara Diehl Shermer of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The sixth alphabet on her sampler is very unusual and has been found on other Pennsylvania samplers.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Katherine K. Olsen
- 1833
- ID Number
- 1985.0856.01
- accession number
- 1985.0856
- catalog number
- 1985.0856.01
- Object Name
- sampler
- Physical Description
- linen (ground fabroc material)
- silk (embroidery thread material)
- embroidered (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 15 3/8 in x 16 1/8 in; 39.0525 cm x 40.9575 cm
- Place Made
- World
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Samplers
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- Alphabets
- Record ID
- nmah_650225
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-b51f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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