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Sampler
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Sampler

Lydia Smith, American · March 29, 1803 · Medium: silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered on plain weave foundation

From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

A landscape with three houses in a row, among trees and flowering plants along a river or pond with boats, ducks and fish. People walk among the houses and trees, and those on the far right are picking cherries. In the background (at upper right), a house among trees next to a garden with corn or grain with human figures and animals including a cow.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own description
Credit lineSampler. March 29, 1803. Lydia Smith, American. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Bequest of Emily Coe Stowell from the Coe Collection. CC0.

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