Sampler listing the counties of England

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This sampler’s chart is based on information from the English census of 1851. The anonymous maker has added a little visual interest by varying the colors of the entries by region, but this sampler employs only one type of stitch (cross stitch) and no decorative patterning. Like embroidered map samplers, this work may have been produced as part of a young woman’s education, as a way of practicing lettering and geographical knowledge.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art