Embroidered Sampler

Betsey Alden

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Embroidered Sampler by Betsey Alden. Brown embroidered sampler on beige fabric. The sampler has a border around the edges with geometric patterns. Inside the border are horizontal rows of various stitches in shades of brown, yellow, and white. The bottom features a stitched scene with a large white house with a red roof and three windows on the second floor and four on the first floor, a smaller white house with a brown roof, several trees, one with sparse leaves, and a fence. Above the scene, there are three lines of stitched text. The top section has decorative stitching resembling mountains or hills. The background behind the sampler is gray.