Embroidered Sampler

Embroidered Sampler

Lydia Headly

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

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.