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Embroidery

Object/Artifact

Small embroidery "worked by Hope Maxwell in 1784". Features the fable of " The Fox and the Grapes", possibly combining it with "The Fox and the Crow", as there is a crow (or raven) sitting atop a house. The house is surrounded by grape vines with bunches of grapes hanging from them. The fox tries to jump up to reach them. Worked in shades of green, brown, white, purple, and black.

2025.22.003

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Maxwell, Hope

1784

Makers Mark

Bottom of embroidery

Worked by Hope Maxwell in 1784

English

Embroidered

Sampler

Girlhood embroidery

7 in

9-1/2 in

Dimensions with frame

Maxwell, Hope

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