IDENTIFIERS
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id:	225669
accession number:	T.18-2018

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Wednesday 14 November 2018
updated:	Thursday 14 November 2019

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Linen (?) embroidered with black silk (?) in cross and satin stitch.
39cm x 42cm
15 1/2" x 16 1/2 "
Inscribed " Melicent Cunnington Her Sampler Benefield 1788" in the lower half of the sampler surrounded by detached floral and insect motifs, beneath 4 bands of inscription.
1,  “Let no mans mind on earthly things be bent/but having food and raiment be content. From "Prison-Pietie or Meditations divine & moral"  pub.1667. Samuel Speed (1631-1682) an oxford divine, fled from Cromwell, returned after the Restoration.
2. "We that can keep his angry spirit down/ is better far than he that takes a town pro"
3. "Better is a little with righteousness/than great revenues without right" Proverbs 16:8
4. "Honour thy Father and thy mother/that thy days may be long in the Land/which the Lord thy God giveth thee……” Each flanked by detached floral motifs." Exodus 20:12 
All enclosed by a flower bud or strawberry border.
Various detached motifs :flower pots, sprays, insects , coronets etc either side of the inscriptions.
title:	sampler

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Butcher Collection

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225669





CATEGORIES
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category: embroidery



DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 38

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 41.5