Sampler

Aurelia Arbo

National Gallery of Art

This is a detailed painting of an embroidery sampler. The painting shows a tan piece of fabric with different designs embroidered on it in colorful thread. The top section features four rows of the alphabet stitched in different colors, with decorative patterns separating them. The letters are smaller in the top two rows and larger in the bottom two. The letters are stitched in yellow, orange, green, red, and black. Below the lines of the alphabet, images have been stitched, including a small house with a yellow roof and orange-bricked walls, with two thin trees on either side of the house.