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Production: Unidentified
Band sampler, linen, embroidered with silk thread in back, cross and eyelet hole stitch. The top is filled with five bands of alphabets, below this about thirty detached motifs including figures, animals, birds, a church, a farmhouse, flowers a pump, furniture and a seated figure are worked. Across the bottom another ten designs are arranged to form a rural scene.
History note: Purchased in Leeuwarden and given to the donor by Mary Minet. Exhibited at the Fine Art Society
Mrs H.A. Longman Bequest
Length: 14 in
Width: 23.1/2 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Longman, H. A., Mrs
18th Century
Production date:
AD 1744
Weaving
: Band sampler, linen, embroidered with silk thread in back, cross and eyelet hole stitch
Embroidering
Inscription present: embroidered in silk thread witha coronet above them
Accession number: T.87-1938
Primary reference Number: 110818
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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