IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110909 accession number: T.10-1952 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Woollen sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch. The sides have a double blue line selvedge, the top is hemmed and the bottom has been left raw. A narrow repeating border pattern goes around the whole sampler. Three narrow repeating border patterns divide the sampler into four sections. The top three contain three alphabets and additional border patterns. The larger lower section has a balanced arrangement of detached birds, flowerpots, sprays, trees and baskets placed on either side of a verse, two flowerpots, two sprays and an inscribed panel. The verse reads ' Life is happy hear the birds/ Early as the morning breaks/Every sweet toned throat of silver/ Into songs of gladness breaks' and the inscription reads ' Alice Ruddock/Aged 13 Years' with the date '1736' on either side of it. object type: Sampler, woollen, embroidered with silks in cross-stitch. The sampler is divided into three sections and features repeating border patterns, alphabets, detached motifs, a verse and an inscription with the makers name and date of completion. title: sampler LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Lady St John Hope Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110909 TECHNIQUES ---------- Woollen sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch. The sides have a double blue line selvedge, the top is hemmed and the bottom has been left raw weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1736 - 1736 creation date earliest: 1736 creation date latest: 1736 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Ruddock, Alice DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 42.75 dimension: Width units: cm value: 33.25 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam CITATIONS -------- English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam The Oxford Book of Local Verses, Chosen by John Holloway ---