Spot sampler

Textile

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Name/Title

Spot sampler

Entry/Object ID

2025.9.15

Description

Linen embroidery sampler featuring various motifs of flowers, cocks, rabbits, peacocks, shepherdess, red brick house flanked by a windmill and a coat of arms supported by a lion and a unicorn. In center top the words: "ANNO ADV 1785."

Textile Type

Woven embroidered sampler

Category

Samplers

Acquisition

Accession

2025.9

Source or Donor

Brooklyn Museum

Acquisition Method

Transfer

Made/Created

Date made

1785

Place

Country

England, United Kingdom

Continent

Europe

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

samplers (embroidery)

Dimensions

Dimension Description

16 x 15 1/2 in. (40.6 x 39.4 cm)

Material

Linen

Location

Box

Box 7 (Brooklyn Museum Collection)

Cabinet

Object Cabinet

Room

Studio