IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110655 accession number: T.109-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 2Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, satin and eyelet stitch. The top edge is cut and part of the sampler is missing; the other edges are turned under and stitched. The sampler is divided into 22 horizontal bands of repeat border patterns, an alphabet, and in addition a wide pictorial band depicting a pastoral scene, including three trees with a male and female figure, sheep, a lamb and two dogs, and the dates '1709' and '1718', with the inscription ' these works in hand my frinds / may have / when if in grave am laid / is deelin place and christ is my salvation / o lord I am not puft in mind I / have no cornful eye I do not / exercise myself in things that / be to high but as the child that / wained is even from his mothe / rs breast so have I lord behav / myself in silence and in rest o / israel trust in the lord let him / be all thy stay from this time / forth for ever more from age / to age I say 1718. / with what god sends let us / contented rest a little is a / nuf if truly blesst 1709'. object type: Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, satin and eyelet stitch. The sampler is divided into 20 horizontal bands of repeat border patterns, and alphabet, detached motifs, two dates and an inscription. title: sampler LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110655 TECHNIQUES ---------- Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, satin and eyelet stitch. The top edge is cut and part of the sampler is missing; the other edges are turned under and stitched. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1709 - 1718 creation date earliest: 1709 creation date latest: 1718 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: in value: 15.1/4 dimension: Width units: in value: 8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Samplers CITATIONS -------- Sampler Exhibition in the Octagon --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_109_1928_20Front.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 460 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_109_1928_20Front.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 460 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_109_1928_20Front.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 460 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/preview_T_109_1928_20Front.jpg height: 413 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_109_1928_20Reverse.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 442 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_109_1928_20Reverse.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 442 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_109_1928_20Reverse.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 442 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/preview_T_109_1928_20Reverse.jpg height: 430 pixels width: 250 pixels