IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110833 accession number: T.102-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Linen spot motif sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in long-armed cross-stitch, cross and satin stitch with a little silver metal thread laid and couched. All three edges are hemmed. The sampler is vaguely arranged in horizontal bands mostly containing detached motifs including a large central male figure around which are arranged patterns such as a lobster, a cockerel, a duck, a peacock, a table and chairs, a pierced heart, a wreath containing the inscription 'SEL 1771' and some geometrically worked squares. The two bottom bands contain figures and animals, including a peacock, two facing birds flanking a flower, a tree, a small deer, a cabinet and what looks like a group of three travellers. title: sampler LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Mrs H.A. Longman STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110833 PEOPLE ------------------- large male figure and a variety of smaller figures SUBJECTS ------------------- cabinet, table and chairs cockerel, lobster, peacock, birds, duck cabinet, table and chairs cockerel, lobster, peacock, birds, duck TECHNIQUES ---------- Linen motif sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in long-armed cross-stitch, cross and satin stitch with a little silver metal thread laid and couched. All three edges are hemmed. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering TECHNIQUES ---------- couching (embroidering) CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1771 - 1771 creation date earliest: 1771 creation date latest: 1771 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 50.5 dimension: Length units: in value: 20.1/4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 25.7 dimension: Width units: in value: 10.1/4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Samplers CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Samplers Sampler Exhibition in the Octagon --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/T_102_1938.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 433 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/T_102_1938.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 433 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/T_102_1938.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 433 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_T_102_1938.jpg height: 439 pixels width: 250 pixels