IDENTIFIERS
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id:	110764
accession number:	T.33-1938

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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'.
title:	sampler

NOTES
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type: history note
value: purchased by the donor from Miss Culter, 1897


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
creditline: Mrs H.A. Longman Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110764





TECHNIQUES
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Band sampler, linen, embroidered with blue silk thread in cross, eyelet hole and hemstitch
weaving
TECHNIQUES
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embroidering

CATEGORIES
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category: embroidery

DATING
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creation date:	1739 - 1739
creation date earliest:	1739
creation date latest:	1739
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Stephenson, Elizabeth

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 41

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 22.2



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