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Production: Unidentified
Linen spot motif sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in long-armed cross-stitch, cross and satin stitch with a little silver metal thread laid and couched. All three edges are hemmed. The sampler is vaguely arranged in horizontal bands mostly containing detached motifs including a large central male figure around which are arranged patterns such as a lobster, a cockerel, a duck, a peacock, a table and chairs, a pierced heart, a wreath containing the inscription 'SEL 1771' and some geometrically worked squares. The two bottom bands contain figures and animals, including a peacock, two facing birds flanking a flower, a tree, a small deer, a cabinet and what looks like a group of three travellers.
Bequeathed by Mrs H.A. Longman
Length: 50.5 cm
Length: 20.1/4 in
Width: 25.7 cm
Width: 10.1/4 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Longman, H. A., Mrs
18th Century
Production date:
AD 1771
blue, yellow, red, pink, brown, green, orange
Silk
Linen
Silver metal thread
Weaving
: Linen motif sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in long-armed cross-stitch, cross and satin stitch with a little silver metal thread laid and couched. All three edges are hemmed.
Embroidering
Couching (embroidering)
Inscription present: embroidered in faded pink silk thread
Accession number: T.102-1938
Primary reference Number: 110833
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Sampler" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/110833 Accessed: 2024-04-20 14:14:46
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