Map sampler made at Pleasent Valley Quaker Boarding School
Polly Platt
1809
Medium
Silk and chenille embroidery on silk
Dimensions
16 1/8 x 20 in. (41 x 50.8 cm)
Classification
Sampler
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Frank P. Stetz Bequest, in loving memory of David Stewart Hull, 2012
Accession Number
2012.64
Tags
Maps
About the Artist
Polly Platt · 1795–1895
Polly Platt, an American needlework artist born in Athens, New York, in 1795, exemplified the skilled craftsmanship of early nineteenth-century schoolgirls through her surviving embroidered sampler. At the age of fourteen, she attended the Pleasant Valley Quaker Boarding School in Dutchess County, New York, where her grandparents resided, immersing herself in the rigorous curriculum that emphasize...