Embroidered sampler

Embroidered sampler

Hannah B. Loring

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hannah Loring's elaborate family record reveals that her father Mathew (1751-1820), was married three times. Hannah was the only child born to Sarah Blake Loring (1763-1800), Mathew's second wife, who died eight days after Hannah's birth. The composition of the sampler was probably inspired by a print, as two later Massachusetts family records done in watercolor by a J. Forbes (New Hampshire Historical Society and National Archives) are identical in format.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.