IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110684 accession number: T.138-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silk in cross, eyelet hole, four-sided cross, double running and satin stitch. The sampler comprises 20 horizontal bands which contain alphabets, repeat border patterns (several of which are incomplete), numerals, and the inscription ' Iohn Rixton Ellen Rixton Iosjah Rixton, Ellen Rixton/ Love the Lord and he will be a tender father unto the/If all mankind would live in mutual love/This world would much resemble that above/ this work of mine my friends may have/ when i am dead and in my grave/ Mary Rixton worked this sampler in the year 1730'. The bottom band contains detached motifs of a peacock, a strawberry, a crown, a lion and a cross. title: sampler NOTES ----- type: history note value: Acquired from Page of Warrington, April 3, 1927 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/110684 TECHNIQUES ---------- Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silk in cross, eyelet hole, fousrsided cross, Holbein and satin stitch weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1730 - 1730 creation date earliest: 1730 creation date latest: 1730 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Rixton, Mary DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 75.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 20.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_138_1928_1_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 523 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/mid_T_138_1928_1_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 979 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_138_1928_1_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 523 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/preview_T_138_1928_1_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 489 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_138_1928_2_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 785 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/mid_T_138_1928_2_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 383 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_138_1928_2_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 785 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/preview_T_138_1928_2_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 192 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/889/large_T_138_1928_1_201607_kly25_mas.jpg height: 1618 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/889/mid_T_138_1928_1_201607_kly25_mas.jpg height: 790 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/T.138-1928_1_201607_kly25_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/889/preview_T_138_1928_1_201607_kly25_mas.jpg height: 395 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/889/T_138_1928_1_201607_kly25_mas.ptif height: 6435 pixels width: 4072 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/891/large_T_138_1928_2_201607_kly25_mas.jpg height: 785 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/891/mid_T_138_1928_2_201607_kly25_mas.jpg height: 383 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/T.138-1928_2_201607_kly25_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/891/preview_T_138_1928_2_201607_kly25_mas.jpg height: 192 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/891/T_138_1928_2_201607_kly25_mas.ptif height: 4671 pixels width: 6093 pixels