IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 166008 accession number: T.1-2008 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 18 July 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Woollen canvas embroidered with shades of blue, green, yellow, pink, and red silks in cross and tent stitch. The upper part of the sampler is divided into alternating bands of inscription and arcaded repeat stylized floral patterns, with a set of numerals 1-19 following the first inscription. The lower third comprises a longer six-line inscription in red: O might I in my Youthful Days, Reflect on my Creators face/Call on my Heavenly Fathers Name, Whose mercy made me what I am./2/Whose love out of his bosom gave, His only Son a world to save,/To buy and wash me with his Blood, And bring my new born Soul to GOD./3/Still may thy grace victorious prove, To draw me with the cords of Love,/O let me know my Sins forgiven, And reign with Thee my GOD in Heaven. Below are two cartouches flanked by detached floral motifs, a central pink or carnation, a yellow tulip with two birds to either side. In the left cartouche is the inscription in red, 'Ann Smith/Finished/This/Work' ,and in the right, ‘October 30th/In The/Year/1772’ symmetrically placed small geometric motifs are worked around the words. The bands are enclosed by an arcaded border of four repeated stylized floral motifs. In a glazed frame the back of which is covered with a piece of a newspaper of 1912 object type: woollen canvas embroidered with polychrome silks in cross and tent stitch title: sampler NOTES ----- type: history note value: Witney Antiques, 96-100 Corn Street, Witney, OXON, OX28 6BU LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum with a contribution from the Zoë Hadwen Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/166008 SUBJECTS ------------------- flower flower TECHNIQUES ---------- woollen canvas embroidered with blue, green, yellow, pink, and red silks weaving CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1772 - 1772 creation date earliest: 1772 creation date latest: 1772 culture: 18th Century, third quarter culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Smith, Ann, embroiderer DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 38.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 30 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Friends. A Common Thread, Samplers with a Quaker influence title: Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Friends. 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