IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110799 accession number: T.68-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cotton sampler lined with cotton and embroidered with red and blue cotton thread in cross-stitch. The sampler is made to resemble a bag and both sides are embroidered with detached motifs, flowerpots, sprays, buildings with perched birds, hearts and crowns, in a balanced arrangement either side of a windmill and flowering plant on the back and a flowerpot and flowering plant on the front. On the centre front there is a wreath enclosing the inscription, which reads 'Sarah/Roberts/1845'. 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/110799 TECHNIQUES ---------- Cotton motif sampler lined with cotton and embroidered with red and blue cotton thread in cross-stitch. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1845 - 1845 creation date earliest: 1845 creation date latest: 1845 culture: 19th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Roberts, Sarah DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 19.75 dimension: Length units: in value: 7.7/8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 18 dimension: Width units: in value: 7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam title: Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_68_1938_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 946 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/mid_T_68_1938_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 541 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_68_1938_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 946 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/preview_T_68_1938_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 271 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/400/large_T_68_1938_1_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 955 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/400/mid_T_68_1938_1_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 466 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/T.68-1938_1_201703_amt49_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/400/preview_T_68_1938_1_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 233 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/400/T_68_1938_1_201703_amt49_mas.ptif height: 3860 pixels width: 4138 pixels