IDENTIFIERS
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id:	110760
accession number:	T.29-1938

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 34 horizontal bands which contain alphabets, repeat border patterns,  bands of lozenge designs,  of crowns, of hearts, of lions and of men carrying lanterns.  the remaining band s are filled with the inscriptions 'Lord give me wisdom to drict my w(ay) I/Ben no riches nor the lenth of days my lif/e is a flower the time it has to last it/is taken with a frost and shook with/every blast', 'Sarah Ballay is my name England is/my nation Brentford is my dwling/ plas and Christ is my salvation/ in the 10 year of her age'.
title:	sampler

NOTES
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type: history note
value: purchased by the donor from Miss Falk, London


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
creditline: Mrs H.A. Longman Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110760





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:	1726 - 1726
creation date earliest:	1726
creation date latest:	1726
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Ballay, Sarah

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 48.2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 22.2



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