IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110928 accession number: T.3-1982 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks with polychrome silks in cross and Algerian eye stitch. It has selvedges at the sides and is hemmed at the top. The sampler depicts a house with a lawn on which stand three sheep and a dog, a; a shepherd and shepherdess; the sun and moon; a pair of doves and a pair of cocks; trees; flowers in pots and a verse 'While you my dear your Needle-work attend/ Observe the counsel of a Faithful Friend/ And strive in inward Ornament to gain/ Or all your Needlework will prove in vain'. Signed and dated below with 'Sarah Thurgoods/ work Aged 11/ Years 1826'. All this is framed by a honeysuckle border. title: sampler NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the collection of the late L.H. Smyth, M.A., LL.B, Trinity Hall LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by J.R.V. Smyth STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110928 TECHNIQUES ---------- Sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks with polychrome silks in cross and Algerian eye stitch. It has selvedges at the sides and is hemmed at the top. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1825 - 1825 creation date earliest: 1825 creation date latest: 1825 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Thurgood, Sarah DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 41.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 31.1