Linen (?) embroidered with black silk (?) in cross and satin stitch.
39cm x 42cm
15 1/2" x 16 1/2 "
Inscribed " Melicent Cunnington Her Sampler Benefield 1788" in the lower half of the sampler surrounded by detached floral and insect motifs, beneath 4 bands of inscription.
1, “Let no mans mind on earthly things be bent/but having food and raiment be content. From "Prison-Pietie or Meditations divine & moral" pub.1667. Samuel Speed (1631-1682) an oxford divine, fled from Cromwell, returned after the Restoration.
2. "We that can keep his angry spirit down/ is better far than he that takes a town pro"
3. "Better is a little with righteousness/than great revenues without right" Proverbs 16:8
4. "Honour thy Father and thy mother/that thy days may be long in the Land/which the Lord thy God giveth thee……” Each flanked by detached floral motifs." Exodus 20:12
All enclosed by a flower bud or strawberry border.
Various detached motifs :flower pots, sprays, insects , coronets etc either side of the inscriptions.
Height: 38 cm
Width: 41.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2018-01-29) by Butcher, Mr & Mrs
Accession number: T.18-2018
Primary reference Number: 225669
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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