IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110768 accession number: T.37-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 7 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Canvas border sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, Montenegrin cross, tent, eyelet and stem stitch. All the edges are framed with pale blue watered silk. A floral border pattern surrounds the main body of the sampler. There is a parrot in both top corners and a lion in both the bottom one's. There are five horizontal sections; the first and third contain inscriptions.' Teach me Wisdom Secretly O Lord God That I may run the ways/of thy commandments with great delight. A.S. Began This 1766/ for as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners; so/by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous'. The second section contains a central flower spray within a symmetrical arrangement of flower sprays, birds, stags and trees. The fourth section depicts the Temptation of Adam and Eve, with a tree, flowers and birds on either side. The final section has three flower sprays with two inscribed panels between them containing small detached motifs and the words 'Ann/Smith/Finished/This' in one and 'Work/March 4/1767' in the other. object type: Bordered sampler, canvas, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, Montenegrin cross, tent, eyelet and stem stitch. The sampler features a floral border pattern and five horizontal sections, which include inscriptions, the Temptation of Adam and Eve, and inscribed panels. title: sampler LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Mrs H.A. Longman Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110768 TECHNIQUES ---------- Woollen border sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, Montenegrin cross, tent, eyelet and stem stitch. All the edges are framed with pale blue watered silk. woven TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: textiles DATING ------ creation date: 1766 - 1767 creation date earliest: 1766 creation date latest: 1767 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Smith, Ann DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 43.25 dimension: Width units: cm value: 31.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment title: Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/T_37_1938_1_201411_kly25_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 778 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_T_37_1938_1_201411_kly25_mas.jpg height: 658 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/T_37_1938_1_201411_kly25_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 778 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/preview_T_37_1938_1_201411_kly25_mas.jpg height: 329 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_37_1938_20Reverse.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 590 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/mid_T_37_1938_20Reverse.jpg height: 644 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_37_1938_20Reverse.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 590 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/preview_T_37_1938_20Reverse.jpg height: 322 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/11/large_T_37_1938_201408_jas244_mas_pre_conservation.jpg height: 1398 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/11/mid_T_37_1938_201408_jas244_mas_pre_conservation.jpg height: 682 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/T.37-1938_201408_jas244_mas_pre-conservation.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/11/preview_T_37_1938_201408_jas244_mas_pre_conservation.jpg height: 341 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/184/large_T_37_1938_1_201411_kly25_mas.jpg height: 1365 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/184/mid_T_37_1938_1_201411_kly25_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/T.37-1938_1_201411_kly25_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/184/preview_T_37_1938_1_201411_kly25_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/184/T_37_1938_1_201411_kly25_mas.ptif height: 6496 pixels width: 4872 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/629/202/large_T_37_1938_1_201411_kly25_dc1.jpg height: 1377 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/629/202/mid_T_37_1938_1_201411_kly25_dc1.jpg height: 672 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/629/202/T_37_1938_1_201411_kly25_dc1.jpg height: 5743 pixels width: 4272 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/629/202/preview_T_37_1938_1_201411_kly25_dc1.jpg height: 336 pixels width: 250 pixels