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Maker: Collins, Caroline
Border sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch. A waved stem, flower bud and leaf border frames the main body of the sampler which comprises four horizontal bands. These include alphabets, numerals, waved stem borders with geometrical flowers, a large crown, a fruit basket, a flower in a two handled vase, a flowering plant in a pot, clipped bushes, the name and date 'Caroline Collins, aged 11, George IV 1820-1830' and the verse 'On Charity/ Charity, decent, modest, easy, kind/Softens the high and rears the abject mind/knows with just reins and gentle hand to guide/Betwixt vile shame and arbitrary pride/Not soon provoked she easily forgives/ and much she suffers as she believes'.
Given by Miss Alice J. Cooke
Length: 43.2 cm
Length: 17 in
Width: 40.3 cm
Width: 15.7/8 in
Method of acquisition: Given (1946-07-25) by Cooke, Alice J. Miss
19th Century
1820
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1830
Weaving
: Border sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch
Embroidering
Accession number: T.1-1946
Primary reference Number: 110896
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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