IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225659 accession number: T.8-2018 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 14 November 2018 updated: Wednesday 18 June 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Butcher Collection STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225659 CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ CREATORS -------- maker: Mary Jane Connett DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 32.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 32.5