IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110696 accession number: T.150-1928 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 14 horizontal bands which include repeat border patterns, alphabets, crowns and coronets, a row of formal trees separated by flowers, the name 'Henrietta Patterson', the date '1745' and the inscriptions ' Let no mans mind on earthly things be bent/But having food and raiment be content', Some men get riches yet are always poor/Some get no riches yet have all things' and 'Henrietta Patterson Wrought this Sam/pler Anno Domini 1745 in the 6 year of '. 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/110696 TECHNIQUES ---------- Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross and eyelet hole stitch weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1745 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1745 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Patterson, Henrietta DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 71.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 28