IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110863 accession number: T.12-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, eyelet hole and satin stitch. A sprig border frames the main body of the sampler which comprises an inscription and a symmetrical arrangement of 18 detached motifs including flower baskets, birds, bushes, carnations in two handled pots, flower sprays, sprigs, a dog and a stag. The inscription reads ' Charity/Did sweeter sounds adorn my howing tongue/ than ever man pronounced or Angels ng/Had I all knowledge human and divine/That thought can reach or science can desine/Yet graciuos Charity indulgent guest/ Were not thy power exerted in my breast/ a tymbals sound were better than my voice/ my faith were form my eloquence were noise/ Charity decent modest easy kind/ Softens the high and rears the abjest mind/ Soft peace she brings whereever she arrives/ she builds quiet as she forms our lives/ Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even/ And opens in each heart a little heaven'. object type: Sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, eyelet hole and satin stitch. A sprig border frames the main body of the sampler which comprises an inscription and a symmetrical arrangement of detached motifs. title: sampler LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Spencer George Perceval Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110863 TECHNIQUES ---------- Sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, eyelet hole and satin stitch. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1806 - 1806 creation date earliest: 1806 creation date latest: 1806 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Northey, Joanna DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 44.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 34.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_12_1923_1_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 802 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/mid_T_12_1923_1_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 638 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/T_12_1923_1_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 802 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/preview_T_12_1923_1_201607_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 319 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/808/large_T_12_1923_1_201607_kly25_mas.jpg height: 1235 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/808/mid_T_12_1923_1_201607_kly25_mas.jpg height: 603 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/T.12-1923_1_201607_kly25_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/808/preview_T_12_1923_1_201607_kly25_mas.jpg height: 302 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/506/808/T_12_1923_1_201607_kly25_mas.ptif height: 6018 pixels width: 4990 pixels