Episode 4

Around the World in Central American Samplers (4 June 2020)

  • M. Dolores Zea’s sampler, 1841, from LACMA
  • Waistcoat made in France, c. 1780-90, from the Victoria and Albert Museum
  • A close up of Aztec stitch, from a sampler at the Art Institute of Chicago
  • Seventeenth-century English band sampler with drawn thread work, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Two Mexican samplers, from LACMA
  • Mexican sampler, from the Art Institute of Chicago
  • Pelican in her Piety motif, from the Art Institute of Chicago
  • Double-headed eagle and Immaculate Conception, from LACMA
  • Checkerboard stag with rose, from the Art Institute of Chicago