- Maker
- Rogers, Ruth (age 8)
- Date made
- 1739
- Origin
- Boston, MA US
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 3 alphabets. Adam & Eve dressed in applied crocheted fig leafs (perhaps added later) beneath an apple tree with serpent. Small animals. Various cross bands.
- Inscription
- RUTH ROGERS / ENDED THIS / SAMPLE IN THE / 8th YEAR OF HER / AGE 1739
- Length Without Frame
- 18 1/4"
- Width Without Frame
- 9"
- Original Frame
- Unframed
- Historical Owner
- #1984.331.6 Gift of Barbara Schiff Sinauer
- Owner
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- Owner Private
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
