IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110895 accession number: T.25-1945 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross and satin stitch. There is a selvedge on both sides, the top is turned under and stitched and the bottom is cut. A floral border encloses two sections. The top one contains motifs arranged symmetrically around a hill with two trees and three classical colonnades. The lower section includes similar motifs arranged around a depiction of the Temptation of Adam and Eve with a hymn above and an inscription beneath. The inscription reads' How chearful along the gay mead/The daisy and cowslip appear/ The flocks as thay carelelsly feed/Rejoice in the spring of the year/The myrtles that shade the gay bower/ The herbage that springs from the sod/ Trees plants cooling fruits and sweet flowers' and the hymn reads ' All raise to the praise of my God/ Direct my ways Lord all my days/ Shall man the great master of all/The only insensible prove/A Hymn/ Forbid it fair gratitudes call/ Forbid it Devotion and love/ The lord who such wonders could raise/ And still can destroy with a nod/ My lips shall inceSsently praise/My soul Shall be rapt in my God./ Redeem the time/ R.Benjamin'. object type: Sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross and satin stitch. A floral border encloses two sections. The top one contains motifs arranged symmetrically around a hill with two trees and three classical colonnades. The lower section includes similar motifs arranged around a depiction of the Temptation of Adam and Eve with a hymn above and an inscription beneath title: sampler NOTES ----- type: history note value: formerly in the collection of Miss Grace Clarke LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Louis Colville Gray Clarke STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110895 TECHNIQUES ---------- Sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross and satin stitch. There is a selvedge on both sides, the top is turned under and stitched and the bottom is cut. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1801 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1801 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Benjamin, R. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: in value: 16.1/4 dimension: Width units: in value: 12.3/4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Samplers title: Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Sampler Exhibition in the Octagon Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_25_1945_1_201702_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 843 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/mid_T_25_1945_1_201702_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 607 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_25_1945_1_201702_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 843 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/preview_T_25_1945_1_201702_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 304 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_25_1945_back_201702_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 851 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/mid_T_25_1945_back_201702_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 602 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_25_1945_back_201702_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 851 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/preview_T_25_1945_back_201702_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 301 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/96/large_T_25_1945_1_201702_kly25_mas.jpg height: 1319 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/96/mid_T_25_1945_1_201702_kly25_mas.jpg height: 644 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/T.25-1945_1_201702_kly25_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/96/preview_T_25_1945_1_201702_kly25_mas.jpg height: 322 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/96/T_25_1945_1_201702_kly25_mas.ptif height: 6180 pixels width: 4796 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/101/large_T_25_1945_2_201702_kly25_mas.jpg height: 1293 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/101/mid_T_25_1945_2_201702_kly25_mas.jpg height: 632 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/T.25-1945_2_201702_kly25_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/101/preview_T_25_1945_2_201702_kly25_mas.jpg height: 316 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/101/T_25_1945_2_201702_kly25_mas.ptif height: 6029 pixels width: 4773 pixels