IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110726 accession number: T.180-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Linen band sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch. The top and bottom are finished with decorative buttonhole stitch and the sides have a pink selvedge. The top half of the sampler is organised into horizontal bands of seven alphabets and both stylised and naturalistic floral bands. The bottom half contains detached naturalistic motifs of horses, a dog, small birds, flowers, chickens, a cockerel and wreaths. Near the bottom, placed above the house motif and inscription reads 'Fanny Schenkelberg 1829'. 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: The Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110726 SUBJECTS ------------------- house, wreaths horses, dog, chickens, birds house, wreaths horses, dog, chickens, birds TECHNIQUES ---------- Linen band sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch. The top and bottom are finished with decorative buttonhole stitch and the sides have a pink selvedge. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1829 - 1829 creation date earliest: 1829 creation date latest: 1829 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Schenkelberg, Fanny DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 79.25 dimension: Length units: in value: 32.1/2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 27 dimension: Width units: in value: 10.5/8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Samplers CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Samplers Sampler Exhibition in the Octagon --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/T_180_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 400 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/T_180_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 400 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/T_180_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 400 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_T_180_1928.jpg height: 475 pixels width: 250 pixels