Maker: Wade, Elizabeth
Woollen bordered sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, satin, tent and buttonhole stitch. There is a double blue line selvedge down both sides; the top and bottom are hemmed. A repeating floral border pattern surrounds the main body of the sampler. At the top there is a verse which reads ' Virtue's the chiefest beauty of the mind, /the noblest ornament of human kind; /Virtue's our safeguard and our guiding star, / that stirs up reason when our senses err'. Beneath a horizontal floral border pattern is a balanced arrangement of detached flower and bird motifs on either side of a floral spray, a vase of flowers and a panel formed by branches with two perching birds enclosing the inscription 'Elizabeth/Wade/aged thirteen yrs/1824'.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Length: 45.5 cm
Length: 18.1/4 in
Width: 33.25 cm
Width: 13.1/2 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
AD 1824
: George IV
Weaving
: Woollen border sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, satin, tent and buttonhole stitch. There is a double blue line selvedge down both sides; the top and bottom are hemmed.
Embroidering
Accession number: T.172-1928
Primary reference Number: 110718
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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