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Sampler

Spanish
1842
Object Place: Spain

Medium/Technique Linen plain weave embroidred with silk
Dimensions 19 x 63.7 cm (7 1/2 x 25 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. George R. Fearing
Accession Number43.153
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionBand sampler with geometric borders, alphabets, numbers and scattered small pictoral images, probably from charted patterns at bottom. Inscribed "Por Rosalia Escolar sien do su directora Da. Dolores Perez Ano de 1842"
Provenance1943, Mrs. George Richmond Fearing, Boston; 1943, gift of Mrs. George R. Fearing to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 15, 1943)