Embroidered Sampler

Lydia H. Richardson

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Brown fabric with embroidered text and images. The fabric is rectangular with a thin black border around the edges. A thick gray border surrounds the fabric. The top half contains rows of letters and numbers in brown thread. The bottom half contains paragraphs of text in brown thread and various embroidered images along the bottom edge. The images include flowers, leaves, a tree, and a bird. A darker brown color appears around the edges of the fabric with spots of discoloration throughout. The artist and title of the piece is "Embroidered Sampler by Lydia H. Richardson".