IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110670 accession number: T.124-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 September 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Linen band sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, double running, satin and Algerian eye stitch with filling stitches. Three edges are hemmed and there is a selvedge at the bottom. The sampler is worked in horizontal bands of repeat border patterns, "boxers", coronets, an alphabet, numerals and inscriptions 'Mary Derow of the charity school of st.clements danes aged ten years begvn this sampleer avgust the twenty ninth anno dom 1723', ' he that giveth to the poor lendeth to the lord and his reward will be in heaven', ' be not wise in then own eyes fear the lord and depart from evil', 'a good name is better than preciovs ointment'. The bottom part of the sampler consists of detached motifs including a male and female figure, a large vase with stylized flowers, two urns with trees, and small birds. object type: Band sampler worked in polychrome silks containing repeat border patterns, 'boxers' coronets, alphabets, numerals 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: Glaisher bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110670 TECHNIQUES ---------- Linen band sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, double running, satin and Algerian eye stitch with filling stitches. Three edges are hemmed and there is a selvedge at the bottom. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1723 - 1723 creation date earliest: 1723 creation date latest: 1723 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Derow, Mary DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 46 dimension: Width units: cm value: 23 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Samplers title: Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Samplers Sampler Exhibition in the Octagon Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/t_124_1928_1_201304_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 578 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/mid_t_124_1928_1_201304_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 887 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/t_124_1928_1_201304_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 578 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/preview_t_124_1928_1_201304_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 443 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/t_124_1928_2_201304_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 566 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/mid_t_124_1928_2_201304_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 905 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/t_124_1928_2_201304_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 566 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/preview_t_124_1928_2_201304_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 453 pixels width: 250 pixels