IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110804 accession number: T.73-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Sampler, wool, embroidered in three shades of blue silk in cross-stitch. There is a selvedge on both sides, the top is turned under and stitched, and the bottom is cut. Lines from the Iliad are worked in Greek. Translated they read 'So spoke glorious Hector and stretched out his arm to his boy, but the child shrunk crying to the bosom of his fair girdled nurse, dismayed at his dear father's aspect and dread of the bronze horse hair crest that he beheld nodding fiercely from the helmet's top. Then his dear father laughed aloud and his lady mother ? glorious Hector took the helmet from his head and laid it all gleaming upon the earth, then kissed he his dear son and handled him in his arms and spoke in prayer to Zeus and all the gods, Leonidas Iliad VI'. title: sampler NOTES ----- type: history note value: given to the donor by Susan Minet in 1926 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/110804 TECHNIQUES ---------- Sampler, wool, embroidered in three shades of blue silk in cross-stitch. There is a selvedge on both sides, the top is turned under and stitched, and the bottom is cut. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1801 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1801 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: in value: 15.3/4 dimension: Width units: in value: 13.3/8 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_73_1938_20Front.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 653 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/mid_T_73_1938_20Front.jpg height: 582 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_73_1938_20Front.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 653 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/preview_T_73_1938_20Front.jpg height: 291 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_73_1938_20Reverse.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 636 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/mid_T_73_1938_20Reverse.jpg height: 597 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_73_1938_20Reverse.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 636 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/preview_T_73_1938_20Reverse.jpg height: 299 pixels width: 250 pixels