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Maker: Stephenson, Elizabeth
Band sampler, linen, embroidered with blue silk thread in cross, eyelet hole and hemstitch. The sampler is made up of three sections; the top section contains a narrow border design with an alphabet worked below it. The second section consists of an inscription of four verses and a band of five crowns and coronets; the third section contains the name 'Elizabeth Stephenson', the date '1739' and above this a heart is worked, below it a crown. The verses in the second section read 'Death cannot make our Souls afraid/ if God be with us there:/we may wilk thro'her darkeSt Sha/ and never yield to Fear', 'I could renounce my All below/if my Creator bid/and run if I were call'd to go/and die as MoSes did', 'Might I but climb to PiSagh's Top/and view the promised Land/My FleSh itself Should long to drop/ and pray for the command', 'ClaSpt in my heavnly Father's arms/I would forget my Breath/and loSe my Life among the Charms/ Of so Divine a Death'.
History note: Purchased by the donor from Miss Culter, 1897
Mrs H.A. Longman Bequest
Length: 41 cm
Width: 22.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Longman, H. A., Mrs
18th Century
Production date:
AD 1739
: George II
Weaving
: Band sampler, linen, embroidered with blue silk thread in cross, eyelet hole and hemstitch
Embroidering
Accession number: T.33-1938
Primary reference Number: 110764
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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