Object Details
- Embroiderer
- Louisa Nenninger, American, b. 1815
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Square sampler of natural-colored linen embroidered with blue, green, yellow, red, and white silks. Within a strawberry vine border, an inscription, Louisa Nenninger Baltimore cess Juin 1823, is followed by rows of alphabets, trees, houses and windmills, a large house with a fence, and two texts in French:
- Louis Seize connoit les pertes qu'on deplore (Louis XVI knew deplorable losses)
- Deja de nos beaux jours on voit briller l'aurore (Already we see the dawn of our beautiful days)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
- 1823
- Accession Number
- 1981-28-78
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- embroidery & stitching
- Sampler
- Medium
- Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave foundation
- Dimensions
- H x W: 45.1 x 45.1 cm (17 3/4 x 17 3/4 in.)
- made in
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1981-28-78
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4fb6801bd-3747-490b-8b9c-4cdcde2f1210
