Sampler

Cleveland Museum of Art

Tan-colored sampler with a green, red, and blue decorative border. The top features a row of colorful alphabet letters, followed by a row of lowercase letters, then various embroidered symbols including a crown and a flower. Below are rows of numbers. The middle section contains a poem. The bottom section features a row of colorful alphabet letters and six potted plants in a row. The text below the plants reads, "Susan Dann's work in the fourteenth year of her age, 1817." The entire piece is framed by a decorative border. Sampler by Susan Dann.