DepartmentTextiles-Europe

Sampler

NameSampler

Maker Antonia Gatti

Date1846

Place madeFlorence, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

MediumCotton

Dimensions18 1/8 × 19 1/2 × 1 15/16 in. (46 × 49.5 × 5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1980.2.765

Object numberA.1980.2.765

Collections

DescriptionEmbroidered, cross-stitch. Red cotton thread on white cotton. Upper half is alphabets. Lower half: "DIO MI VEDE DIO MI SENTE" ("God sees me, God hears me."). Motifs: cross and instruments of the passion; skeleton holds envelope and scythe. "SEMPR MAI ETERNI" ("Always never eternal") at bottom; at top: "VIVA GESU" ("Long llive Jesus"). // M. Cutler no. 1035.