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Maker: Eggleston, Elizabeth
Band sampler, linen, embroidered in polychrome silks in a variety of stitches. Divided into thirteen horizontal bands featuring inscriptions, narrow repeating border patterns, a flowerpot top left and right and a wider bottom band with a central flowering plant and a balanced arrangement of detached motifs.
Linen bands sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, marking cross, satin, Algerian eye, eyelet, stem, buttonhole and hemstitch. All the edges are hemmed. There is a narrow cross-stitch border which goes all around the sampler. There are thirteen horizontal bands of inscription with various small detached motifs, narrow repeating border patterns, a flowerpot top left and right and a wider bottom band with a central flowering plant and a balanced arrangement of detached motifs. The three inscriptions read 'ALE BLESSED MARY FULL OF GRace/THE LORD REMAiN WITH ThEE/Thou SHaLT CONCEiVE AND BeaR A SON/ OUR SaVOUR FOR TO BE/ THAT WONDERS STRANGE REPLYED ShE/I SHOULD CONCeIVE AND BReeD/ThaT NEAR WAS TOUCH BY ANY MAN/ BUT PURE IN WORD AND DEED', 'ELIZeBeTH EGGLESTON/AGeD 15 AUGUST The 10 1746', ' IF BREATH Was Made For MaN/TO BY The RICh WOULD LIVe/AND Pore WOULD DY'.
Bequeathed by Miss Grace Clarke
Length: 21 cm
Width: 20 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1940-05) by Clarke, Grace F., Miss
18th Century
Production date:
AD 1746
: George II
Weaving
: Linen bands sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, marking cross, satin, Algerian eye, eyelet, stem, buttonhole and hemstitch. All the edges are hemmed.
Embroidering
Accession number: T.18-1940
Primary reference Number: 110883
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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