IDENTIFIERS
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id:	110689
accession number:	T.143-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 20 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, eyelet hole and satin stitch.  The sampler comprises 10 horizontal bands which include alphabets, repeat border patterns, an inscription, the Prince and Princess of Orange with a crowned heart in between them, birds, leaves and panels with further inscriptions.  These read 'Improve Your time Lent You to Purchase/heaven and then Youl find it as A time Well/Given/Forget not in thy you/th to serve the Lord/and then long life an/d riches hell afford', 'favovr/is deceitfull/and beauty/ is vain but/ a woman/that fearet/h the Loard/she shall/be praised', 'reme/mber thy/creator/ whilst in/youth and/ follow/him who/is both/light and/ truth', 'dvreing the/time of life allotted/ me grant me good god my/health and liberty I beg/ no more if more thovrt pl/easd to give ill thankfvlly/ the overplvs recive/ ioanna crovch/ September the (6) 1736'.
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:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110689





TECHNIQUES
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Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, eyelet hole and satin stitch
weaving
TECHNIQUES
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embroidering

CATEGORIES
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category: embroidery

DATING
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creation date:	1736 - 1736
creation date earliest:	1736
creation date latest:	1736
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Crouch, Joanna

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 62.3

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 21.6