IDENTIFIERS
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id:	110775
accession number:	T.44-1938

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 17 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Cotton band sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch.  The edges are bound with green watered silk ribbon.  The sampler is worked horizontally with repeating floral border patterns at the top and bottom and three small geometric border patterns making sections containing an alphabet, numerals 1-13, a verse and an inscription.  They read 'Virtue/Virtue's the greatest beauty of the mind/ The noblest ornament of human kind/ Virtue's our safeguard our guiding star/ That stir's up reason when our senses err. Eliza Hall Chip. norton Iuly 23 1795'.
title:	sampler

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/110775





TECHNIQUES
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Cotton band sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch.  The edges are bound with green watered silk ribbon.
weaving
TECHNIQUES
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embroidering

CATEGORIES
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category: embroidery

DATING
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creation date:	1795 - 1795
creation date earliest:	1795
creation date latest:	1795
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Hall, Eliza

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 13.75

dimension: Length
units: in
value: 5.1/2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 13.25

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 5.1/4



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam
CITATIONS
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English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam
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