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Maker: Cant, Jane
Pictorial sampler, wool, embroidered polychrome silks in cross, satin and stem stitch and bound with a dark green ribbon. In the centre of the canvas a boy carrying a laurel garland and the date 1814 are worked inside a large laurel wreath. Above the wreath four lines of verse are worked whilst below the makers name and age are placed amidst detached motifs including a bird, fruit basket, a vase of flowers, a lion and a rose spray. The inscriptions read ' Remember All The Dying Pains/That My Redemer Felt And Let/ His Blood wash out My Stains/ And Answer For My Guilt/ 1814/ Iane Cant/ Aged 9 years'.
History note: Purchased by the donor from Sir F.A. Crisps Collection, Sotheby's 1935
Mrs H.A. Longman Bequest
Length: 28.2 cm
Length: 11.1/8 in
Width: 37.2 cm
Width: 14.5/8 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Longman, H. A., Mrs
19th Century
Production date:
AD 1814
: George III
dark green
Ribbon
polychrome
Silk
Wool
Weaving
: Motif sampler, wool, embroidered polychrome silks in cross, satin and stem stitch and bound with a dark green ribbon.
Embroidering
Binding
Accession number: T.55-1938
Primary reference Number: 110786
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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