IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110904 accession number: T.15-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 18 July 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Woollen band sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, long-armed cross, herring bone, satin, rococo, Florentine and trellis stitch. Two edges are hemmed and there is a selvedge at the top and the bottom. The sampler is organised into horizontal bands in vivid colours and a variety of stitches. the bands are worked in repeat pattern bands with stylized arcaded flower and leaf motifs. The sampler depicts three alphabets and the inscriptions 'All flesh is like the withered hay and so it springs and fades away', 'Dorcas Haynes her work finished the 25 day of the twelves month 1720'. object type: Band sampler worked in polychrome silks containing alphabets, the inscription 'All flesh is like the withered hay and so it springs and fades away', and arcaded flowers. title: sampler LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Miss Margaret Bone STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110904 TECHNIQUES ---------- Woollen band sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, long-armed cross, herring bone, satin, rococo, Florentine and trellis stitch. Two edges are hemmed and there is a selvedge at the top and the bottom. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidery CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1720 - 1720 creation date earliest: 1720 creation date latest: 1720 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Haynes, Dorcas DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 31.25 dimension: Width units: cm value: 22.25 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Image and Text title: Samplers title: Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Samplers 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_15_1950_1_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 791 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/mid_T_15_1950_1_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 647 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_15_1950_1_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 791 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/preview_T_15_1950_1_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 324 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/945/large_T_15_1950_1_201607_kly25_mas.jpg height: 1236 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/945/mid_T_15_1950_1_201607_kly25_mas.jpg height: 604 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/T.15-1950_1_201607_kly25_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/945/preview_T_15_1950_1_201607_kly25_mas.jpg height: 302 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/945/T_15_1950_1_201607_kly25_mas.ptif height: 5881 pixels width: 4872 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/51/366/large_T_15_1950_1_201607_kly25_dc1.jpg height: 1346 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/51/366/mid_T_15_1950_1_201607_kly25_dc1.jpg height: 657 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/T.15-1950_1_201607_kly25_dc1.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/51/366/preview_T_15_1950_1_201607_kly25_dc1.jpg height: 329 pixels width: 250 pixels