Branded linen patchwork on which with cattle-colored silk in cross, locker and star stitch include the spies of Canaan, the Dutch Virgin, the coat of arms of Amsterdam, Adam and Eve by the tree of good and evil, ANNO 1802, OLD 13 IAAR and three pairs of initials, The maker made this patchwork in her twelfth year. The pattern of the spies of Canaan going behind each other is rarely seen on Dutch samplers. The front man turns away from the bunch of grapes (Christ), the back one turns toward him (cf. sampler in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht). The crowned Dutch Virgin with the freedom hat is

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