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Maker: Bird, Hannah
Bordered sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, eyelet hole and satin stitch and bound with a dark green ribbon. A stylized flower and leaf border frames the main body of the sampler which comprises a vertical band of a repeat border pattern, a house, two birds on the roof, two in flight above, a garden with a lawn, a fence, a butterfly, the name and date 'Hannah Bird September 8 1834', and the inscription 'TRue Peace/ lord it is not life to live/ If thy presence thou deny/Lord if thou thy presence give/Tis no longer death to die/ Source and giver of repose/ singly from thy smile it flows/ peace and happiness are thine/ Mine they are if thou art mine/I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness/ Ps 17.15'.
History note: Purchased by the donor from Miss Culter in 1898
Mrs H.A. Longman Bequest
Length: 42.8 cm
Length: 16.7/8 in
Width: 32.7 cm
Width: 12.7/8 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Longman, H. A., Mrs
19th Century
Production date:
AD 1834
: William IV
dark green
Ribbon
polychrome
Silk
Wool
Weaving
: Border sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, eyelet hole and satin stitch and bound with a dark green ribbon
Embroidering
Binding
Accession number: T.62-1938
Primary reference Number: 110793
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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