IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110770 accession number: T.39-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Band sampler, wool, embroidered with black silk thread in cross, eyelet hole and four-sided stitch. The edges are bound with black ribbon. The sampler comprises 14 horizontal bands which are separated by waved lines. The bands include alphabets, numerals, crowns, hearts, crossed swords and the inscription 'Greatness in virtue only's understood None's truly/great that is not truly good. Honour's a god that/none but Fools adore: the Wife have nobler/Happiness in Store. If all Mankind would live in mutual/ Love This World would much resemble that above'. 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/110770 TECHNIQUES ---------- Band sampler, wool, embroidered with black silk thread in cross, eyelet hole and four-sided stitch weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- binding TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1777 - 1777 creation date earliest: 1777 creation date latest: 1777 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Alder, Christian Ann DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 31.8 dimension: Length units: in value: 12.1/2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 24 dimension: Width units: in value: 9.1/2 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_39_1938_20Front.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 635 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/mid_T_39_1938_20Front.jpg height: 598 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_39_1938_20Front.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 635 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/preview_T_39_1938_20Front.jpg height: 299 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_39_1938_20Reverse.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 626 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/mid_T_39_1938_20Reverse.jpg height: 607 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_39_1938_20Reverse.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 626 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/preview_T_39_1938_20Reverse.jpg height: 304 pixels width: 250 pixels