1592997270000 1542214330000 Standard Record object-225669 1750270078776 1750243578000 1750270042375 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-225669 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225669 5879a905-8691-39bf-b61a-21da8ed64132 7 reference term-29556 adlib-term-29556 e008f69f-8abd-316d-9406-e2cee4f33748 embroidery reference term-135731 adlib-term-135731 dfaa1977-08a8-37a7-91bc-283d1a08a5d6 Butcher Collection Applied Arts 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. T.18-2018 1 accession number T.18-2018 225669 priref 225669 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225669 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225669 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-198686 adlib-agent-198686 4b74a4c2-926c-34ad-abf9-87532b8084c3 Butcher, Mr & Mrs 2018 2018 2018-01-29 bequeathed Height cm 38 Width cm 41.5 reference term-117142 adlib-term-117142 0ef46508-81d3-3662-8361-18349e913d25 sampler reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum

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