IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110941 accession number: T.2-2000 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, satin, stem, chain, eyelet and running stitch. A rosebud and leaf border frames the main body of the sampler which comprises the inscription 'O Lord enable me to know/ still more and more of thee/ and daily as I older grow/May christ my patron be' with symmetrically placed flower and bird motifs placed on either side of a large flower with three buds and a flower basket. Near the bottom runs an embroidered green line of grass with a bird and 3 trees each side of a central, running deer. Beneath this sits the inscription 'Mary Lee Mayle Aged 9 1842'. 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 J.D.W. Eames STABLE URL ---------- url: http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110941 TECHNIQUES ---------- Sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, satin, stem, chain, eyelet and running stitch weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1842 - 1842 creation date earliest: 1842 creation date latest: 1842 culture: 19th century CREATORS -------- maker: Mayle, Mary Lee DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 41.2 dimension: Length units: in value: 16.1/8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 32.6 dimension: Width units: in value: 12.7/8