
Twelve textiles and thirteen pieces of embroidery including samplers, baby's caps, and shawl by French, British, Italian, Chinese, Persian, Iranian, German and Turkish makers. Part of four gifts and two bequests to twenty-three museums by Jean and Rachel Alexander through the Art Fund between 1921 and 1973.
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Date supported
1955
Medium and material
Linen, silk, satin
Dimensions
Various
Gifted by
Jean & Rachel Alexander
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