Sampler

Nancy Sibley, 1808

From the colonial period to the mid nineteenth-century, sampler making formed a major component of polite education for young girls. Needlework samplers demonstrated the artistic achievements of students, chief among… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Nancy Sibley ¹
Date: 1808 ¹
Medium: Silk thread, metal-wrapped thread, painted linen, and painted paper on linen plain weave, needlework ¹
Original: 1,818 × 2,184 px ¹
License: Public domain (Minneapolis Institute of Art)
Credit: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Gift of Carroll Simmons

Object record, Minneapolis Institute of Art

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