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Maker: Roberts, Sarah
Linen border sampler embroidered with polychrome silk in cross and a little satin stitch. All the edges are hemmed. A repeating strawberry border pattern surrounds the main body of the sampler, and dividing it horizontally into two sections. The upper section includes two alphabets, numerals 1-6 and symmetrically worked detached motifs, trees, crowns, strawberries, dogs, birds, hearts and lozenges, either side of a large flowering plant. The larger lower section has a balanced arrangement of similar detached motifs, a turreted building with perching birds, a panel with a heart motif border enclosing a verse and two inscribed octagons in the lower corners. The verse reads ' Jesus permit thy gracious Name to stand/ As the first effort of an Infants hand./ And while her fingers on the canvas move/ Engage her tender heart to seek thy Love/ With thy dear Angels may she share a part,/ And write thy Name thyself upon her heart'. the inscription to the left is ' Sarah/Roberts/Finished this work/ in the 11th Year/ of her Age.; and to the right ' Feby the 9th/In the Year of/Our Lord/God/ 1816'.
Given by Mrs Mary Mulligan
Length: 43 cm
Width: 33.25 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1981-03-27) by Mulligan, Mary, Mrs
19th Century
Production date:
AD 1816
: George III
Weaving
: Linen border sampler embroidered with polychrome silk in cross and a little satin stitch. All the edges are hemmed.
Embroidering
Accession number: T.12-1981
Primary reference Number: 110925
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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