IDENTIFIERS
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id:	110711
accession number:	T.165-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 20 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Cotton friendship sampler embroidered in polychrome silks in cross-stitch.  Three edges are hemmed and there is a selvedge on the right side.  An inscription is framed by a blue and yellow bud-border and inside it a large flower basket flanked on either side by a large stylised flower sits above the verse which reads ' this gift my friend/To the I. send/In hope to be approved/ I have done my best/ i protest/ For one so well beloved/ Mary Sharp to Mary/ Limmer June 25 1790'.
title:	sampler

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110711





TECHNIQUES
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Cotton friendship sampler embroidered in polychrome silks in cross-stitch.  Three edges are hemmed and there is a selvedge on the right side.
weaving
TECHNIQUES
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embroidering

CATEGORIES
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category: embroidery

DATING
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creation date:	1790 - 1790
creation date earliest:	1790
creation date latest:	1790
culture:	18th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Sharp, Mary

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 19

dimension: Length
units: in
value: 7.1/2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 15.25

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 5.5/8



CITATIONS
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Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Samplers
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