Sampler

Art

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Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Sampler

Entry/Object ID

VC.81.9

Description

Incomplete sampler, cross-stitched silk on linen (some background areas never filled in, right hand and lower border lacking): border (from outside in) consists of a row of cream-colored triangles and a row of green inverted triangles, an abstract strawberry, leaf, and vine pattern, and a row of green triangles and a row of inverted cream-colored triangles (the later series present on all four sides of the sampler); the center square is divided into two horizontal panels, the top one smaller than the bottom one; the top panel contains from left to right: a small, male figure with green knee breeches, cream-colored shirt and stockings, and brown shoes leaning on a walking stick, a gnarled tree with some leaves, Adam, with arms outstretched and a green skirt on, the Tree of Knowledge with fruit and the snake coiled around it, and Eve, with long brown hair and clad in a green skirt, reaching up to grab an apple, to her right is an abstract cream-colored and green double handled pot with three abstract flowers growing from it; (see inscription in this place) to the bottom and right are a brown bird with a green wing, two gnarled trees, and bucolic scene containing a woman in a picture hat, green grass, and a patch of brown which might be a creature or a rock. The following inscription is worked into the upper left hand corner of the lower panel: "ELIZABETH x KORTWRIGHT x S/WORK x IN x/THE YEA/R x OF x OUR x/LORD x 1757 x/AG"

Artwork Details

Medium

silk, Linen, Silk, Linen

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Elizabeth Kortwright

Attribution

Maker

Date made

1757

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Transcription

(See Description)

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

9 in

Width

9-1/8 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 9 x 9 1/8 in. (22.9 x 23.2 cm)

Condition

Notes

Remarks: Details of condition: Very faded overall; 3 holes lower left, holes lower right, hole near upper right branch of tree in upper left; cleaned and remounted 1982.

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Van Cortlandt Family

Notes

Former owner

General Notes

Note Type

General Note

Note

Van Cortlandt family possession

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Van Cortlandt Manor, Northeast Chamber/Catherine's