Embroidered Sampler

Embroidered Sampler

Mary Ann Stauffer

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This sampler displays a grand Federal two-story public building or church. Its maker, Mary Ann Stauffer, displays an interest in rendering the architectural details of the building in her stitching of window shutters, a fanlight over the front door and a colonnaded bell tower and spire.

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.