IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110883 accession number: T.18-1940 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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'. object type: 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. 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 Miss Grace Clarke STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110883 TECHNIQUES ---------- Linen bands sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, marking cross, satin, Algerian eye, eyelet, stem, buttonhole and hemstitch. All the edges are hemmed. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1746 - 1746 creation date earliest: 1746 creation date latest: 1746 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Eggleston, Elizabeth DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 21 dimension: Width units: cm value: 20 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam CITATIONS -------- English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_18_1940_1_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 996 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/mid_T_18_1940_1_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 514 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_18_1940_1_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 996 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/preview_T_18_1940_1_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 257 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/18/large_T_18_1940_1_201607_kly25_mas.jpg height: 1219 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/18/mid_T_18_1940_1_201607_kly25_mas.jpg height: 595 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/T.18-1940_1_201607_kly25_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/18/preview_T_18_1940_1_201607_kly25_mas.jpg height: 298 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/18/T_18_1940_1_201607_kly25_mas.ptif height: 5798 pixels width: 4872 pixels