IDENTIFIERS
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id:	225659
accession number:	T.8-2018

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Wednesday 14 November 2018
updated:	Tuesday 30 April 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Woollen tammy cloth embroidered with red silk in cross stitch. On a cotton backing.
34cm x 34cm
13 1/4" x 13 1/4"

A very small scale outer border with an inner border of repeating bud and leaf pattern. 

At the top a decorative upper case alphabet, a dividing narrow band, a small lower case alphabet.

Beneath the alphabets the inscription "The Dying Christian To His Soul" 
"Vital spark of heavenly flame/ Quit,oh quit this mortal frame/Trembling, hoping, flying/O the pain, the bliss of dying/Cease fond Nature, cease thy strife/And let me languish into life.
Hark! they whisper, angels say/Sister spirit, come away/What is this absorbs me quite/Steals my senses, shuts my sight/Drowns my spirit, draws my breath/Tell me, my soul, can this be death.
The world recedes, it disappears/Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears/with sounds seraphic ring/Lend,lend your wings! I mount! I fly!/O grave! where is thy victory/O death! where is thy sting"

Inscription by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

To either side of the verse are 3 detached floral motifs and  elongated flowering trees with each with a perching bird, below is a short repeat pattern band, 7 detached motifs and finally the inscription" Alphington.....Mary Ann Connett May 21st 1869 Aged 12 years.......School.

Mary Jane was probably born in 1856 to John & Mary Connett of Ide in the parish of Alphington, now a suburb of Exeter. A National School opened in Alphington in 1812, followed by a Board School in 1878. 

Bought in Devon 1992
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/225659





CATEGORIES
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category: embroidery

DATING
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CREATORS
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maker: Mary Jane Connett

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 32.5

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 32.5