Embroidered Sampler
Lydia Headly|Rachel Headly
ca. 1805 · Embroidered silk on linen · The American Wing
Lydia Headly or her younger sister Rachel completed this record of three generations of their Quaker family about 1805. In addition to memorializing the family, she appropriately included the figures of Adam and Eve, and added a portrait of a little house at the bottom.
- Artist
- Lydia Headly|Rachel Headly
- Date
- ca. 1805
- Medium
- Embroidered silk on linen
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of Barbara Schiff Sinauer, 1984
