<img width="640" height="593" src="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/4029_7b628a667005aa16_b-700x649.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/4029_7b628a667005aa16_b-700x649.jpg 700w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/4029_7b628a667005aa16_b-300x278.jpg 300w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/4029_7b628a667005aa16_b-170x158.jpg 170w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/4029_7b628a667005aa16_b.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="23941" data-permalink="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/2017/03/18/plymouth-sampler/4029_7b628a667005aa16_b/" data-orig-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/4029_7b628a667005aa16_b.jpg" data-orig-size="1024,950" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="4029_7b628a667005aa16_b" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/4029_7b628a667005aa16_b-300x278.jpg" data-large-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/4029_7b628a667005aa16_b-700x649.jpg" />Susan Sampson Bagnell’s sampler is part a group of Plymouth, Massachusetts, samplers dating from 1816 to 1845. The earliest examples had a rounded central field, which by the 1820s had evolved into the cross-stitched octagonal enclosure seen on Susan’s sampler. Although there were few Quakers living in Plymouth, the group’s bold Roman alphabets, and the...
