These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Maker: Hardyman, Harriot
Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, eyelet hole and drawn fabric filling stitches. The sampler comprises 14 horizontal bands which include repeat border patterns, an alphabet, numerals, a band of octagons, trees, flower vases, a dog, birds in flight, a band of drawn fabric filling stitch and the inscriptions 'Harriot Hardyman aged 7 years 1814', and 'Lord prosper them that give me this/Crown them with thy heavenly Bliss'.
Mrs H.A. Longman Bequest
Length: 33 cm
Width: 21.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Longman, H. A., Mrs
19th Century
Production date:
AD 1814
: George III
bleached
Linen
polychrome
Silk
Weaving
: Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, eyelet hole and drawn fabric filling stitches
Embroidering
Accession number: T.56-1938
Primary reference Number: 110787
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
Mirador deep zoom
IIIF Manifest
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Sampler" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110787 Accessed: 2025-01-16 13:18:54
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110787
|title=Sampler
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-01-16 13:18:54|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-110787
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_56_1938_1_201701_kly25_dc2.jpg"
alt="Sampler"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Sampler</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
