IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110774 accession number: T.43-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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'. object type: 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 title: sampler LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Mrs H.A. Longman Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110774 TECHNIQUES ---------- 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. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering TECHNIQUES ---------- couching (embroidering) CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1793 - 1793 creation date earliest: 1793 creation date latest: 1793 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Tyrrell, A DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: in value: 14 dimension: Width units: in value: 11.1/2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Samplers CITATIONS -------- Sampler Exhibition in the Octagon --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_43_1938_20Front.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 659 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/mid_T_43_1938_20Front.jpg height: 577 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_43_1938_20Front.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 659 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/preview_T_43_1938_20Front.jpg height: 288 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_43_1938_20Reverse.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 652 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/mid_T_43_1938_20Reverse.jpg height: 583 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_43_1938_20Reverse.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 652 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/preview_T_43_1938_20Reverse.jpg height: 291 pixels width: 250 pixels