IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110925 accession number: T.12-1981 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Linen border sampler embroidered with polychrome silk in cross and a little satin stitch. All the edges are hemmed. A repeating strawberry border pattern surrounds the main body of the sampler, and dividing it horizontally into two sections. The upper section includes two alphabets, numerals 1-6 and symmetrically worked detached motifs, trees, crowns, strawberries, dogs, birds, hearts and lozenges, either side of a large flowering plant. The larger lower section has a balanced arrangement of similar detached motifs, a turreted building with perching birds, a panel with a heart motif border enclosing a verse and two inscribed octagons in the lower corners. The verse reads ' Jesus permit thy gracious Name to stand/ As the first effort of an Infants hand./ And while her fingers on the canvas move/ Engage her tender heart to seek thy Love/ With thy dear Angels may she share a part,/ And write thy Name thyself upon her heart'. the inscription to the left is ' Sarah/Roberts/Finished this work/ in the 11th Year/ of her Age.; and to the right ' Feby the 9th/In the Year of/Our Lord/God/ 1816'. 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 Mrs Mary Mulligan STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110925 TECHNIQUES ---------- Linen border sampler embroidered with polychrome silk in cross and a little satin stitch. All the edges are hemmed. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1816 - 1816 creation date earliest: 1816 creation date latest: 1816 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Roberts, Sarah DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 43 dimension: Width units: cm value: 33.25 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam title: Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Samplers Yesterday and Today English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_12_1981_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 828 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/mid_T_12_1981_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 618 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_12_1981_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 828 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/preview_T_12_1981_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 309 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/818/large_T_12_1981_1_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1148 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/818/mid_T_12_1981_1_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 560 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/T.12-1981_1_201703_amt49_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/818/preview_T_12_1981_1_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 280 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/818/T_12_1981_1_201703_amt49_mas.ptif height: 4050 pixels width: 3613 pixels