IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110905 accession number: T.2-1952 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 17 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Linen sampler embroidered with red, green, and black silk, linen, silver, and silver-gilt threads in back, buttonhole, hem, ladder and plaited braid stitches various composite stitches. There is also cut and drawn work with needle lace filling stitches. All the edges are hemmed. The sampler has seven detached squares of cut and drawn work with silk and metal thread embroidery, five small examples of metal thread work, and one band of cut and drawn work with unfinished needlepoint lace fillings showing how the patterns were built up. title: sampler NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir William Lawrence when published in 1926; Lady St John Hope LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Lady St John Hope Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110905 TECHNIQUES ---------- Linen sampler embroidered with red, green, and black silk, linen, silver, and silver-gilt threads in back, buttonhole, hem, ladder and plaited braid stitches with various composite stitches. There is also cut and drawn work with needle lace filling stitches and all the edges are hemmed. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering TECHNIQUES ---------- cut and drawn work TECHNIQUES ---------- needlepoint (lace) CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1575 - 1625 creation date earliest: 1575 creation date latest: 1625 culture: 16th Century, Late-17th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 16.5 dimension: Length units: in value: 6.3/8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 20.5 dimension: Width units: in value: 8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam title: Lace title: Samplers CITATIONS -------- Samplers Some Pictures and Samplers from the Collection of Lady St John Hope English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam 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_2_1952.jpg height: 584 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_T_2_1952.jpg height: 384 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/T_2_1952.jpg height: 584 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_T_2_1952.jpg height: 192 pixels width: 250 pixels