IDENTIFIERS
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id:	225654
accession number:	T.3-2018

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Wednesday 14 November 2018
updated:	Thursday 13 June 2019

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Sampler. Very faded polychrome silks on loosely woven linen in cross stitch.
31 cm x 31cm. 12 1/4" x 12 1/4".

A border of a single line of cross stitch encloses at the top an upper and lower case alphabet and numerals 1-12. 

Beneath these is inscribed "Ellen Atkin her Work in The Year 1837", followed by the verse: "Two things have I required of thee/Deny me them not before I die" and " Remove far from me my vanity and lies/Give me neither Poverty nor lies/Feed me with food convenient for me"

The first is based on Proverbs 30.7, and the second on Proverbs 30.8


Puchased at auction, Aylsham 1994
title:	sampler

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Butcher Collection

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225654





CATEGORIES
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category: embroidery

DATING
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CREATORS
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maker: Ellen Atkin

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 29

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 30