IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110690 accession number: T.144-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross and eyelet hole stitch. The sampler comprises 18 horizontal bands which depict alphabets, numerals, repeat border patterns, crowns and coronets, the name and date 'Mary Read 17 may 1737', and the inscriptions 'Mary Read finished this sampler', ' May the 17: 1736 Mary Read began/ constraint in all things makes the/pleasure less sweet in the love/that comes with willingness/ Greatness in virtue only's understood/Nones truly Great that is not truly God/Your veneration of Jehovah's name/By Observation of his Laws Proclaim/Your memory with Choicest treasure store/ and never Vertues heavenly course give ore/ Mary Read finished this sampler'. title: sampler LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110690 TECHNIQUES ---------- Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross and eyelet hole stitch. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1736 - 1736 creation date earliest: 1736 creation date latest: 1736 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Reed, Mary DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 47 dimension: Width units: cm value: 21.6