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Embroidered picture

mid-18th century
Object Placepossibly Boston, New England
Medium/TechniqueLinen plain weave embroidered with wool
Dimensions70.5 x 52.1 cm (27 3/4 x 20 1/2 in.)
Credit LineThe M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession number41.627
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
ProvenanceMartha Codman and Maxim Karolik collection; gift of M. and M. Karolik to MFA, October 9, 1941.
Sampler
19th century
Bed Cover
mid-18th century, remodeled in the 19th century
Chandler coat-of-arms
Catharine Chandler
about 1750
Spot sampler
17th century
Embroidered picture
Elizabeth Storer Smith
1740–50
Sampler
Abigail Gould
1796