IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110718 accession number: T.172-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 27 March 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Woollen bordered sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, satin, tent and buttonhole stitch. There is a double blue line selvedge down both sides; the top and bottom are hemmed. A repeating floral border pattern surrounds the main body of the sampler. At the top there is a verse which reads ' Virtue's the chiefest beauty of the mind, /the noblest ornament of human kind; /Virtue's our safeguard and our guiding star, / that stirs up reason when our senses err'. Beneath a horizontal floral border pattern is a balanced arrangement of detached flower and bird motifs on either side of a floral spray, a vase of flowers and a panel formed by branches with two perching birds enclosing the inscription 'Elizabeth/Wade/aged thirteen yrs/1824'. 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/110718 TECHNIQUES ---------- Woollen border sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, satin, tent and buttonhole stitch. There is a double blue line selvedge down both sides; the top and bottom are hemmed. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1824 - 1824 creation date earliest: 1824 creation date latest: 1824 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Wade, Elizabeth DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 45.5 dimension: Length units: in value: 18.1/4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 33.25 dimension: Width units: in value: 13.1/2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam CITATIONS -------- English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam ---