Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Tyrrell, A
Entities
Categories
Description
Sampler, linen, oval shaped and bound with ribbon, embroidered in polychrome silks and chenille. the sampler features a floral border which encloses floral motifs and wreaths, narrow repeat border patterns, a religious verse and six lines of a poem by Thomson
Border sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks and chenille threads in cross, satin and Algerian eye stitch with laid and couched work. The sampler is cut to an oval and bound with brown ribbon. A meandering floral border encloses floral motifs and wreaths, narrow repeat border patterns, a religious verse and six lines of a poem by Thomson. Within the bottom wreath the inscription 'A Tyrrell 1793' is worked. The first verse reads ' As the good shepherd tend his fleecycare/Seeks freshest pasture and the purest air/Explores the lost the wandering sheep directs/By day o'ersees them and by night protects/The tender lamb he raises in his arms/Feeds from his hand and in his bosom warms/ Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage/ The promised father of the future age/Pope'. The second reads 'Delightful task! To rear the tender thought/To teach the young idea to shoot/to pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind/To breathe the enlivening spirit/And to fix the generous purpose/In the glowing breast. Thomson'.
Legal notes
Mrs H.A. Longman Bequest
Measurements and weight
Length: 14 in
Width: 11.1/2 in
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1938)
by
Longman, H. A., Mrs
Dating
18th Century
Production date:
AD 1793
: George III
Materials used in production
polychrome
Silk
polychrome
Chenille
Wool
Techniques used in production
Weaving
: Border sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks and chenille threads in cross, satin and Algerian eye stitch with laid and couched work. The sampler is cut to an oval and bound with brown ribbon.
Embroidering
Couching (embroidering)
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: T.43-1938
Primary reference Number: 110774
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 29 April 2024
Last processed: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
