IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225701 accession number: T.32-2018 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 21 November 2018 updated: Monday 13 January 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cotton, embroidered with polychrome cottons (?) or silks in cross stitch. 33cm x 34cm 13" x 13 3/8" A simple strawberry border encloses an upper section with symmetrically arranged traditional detached motifs placed either side of a large flower pot flanked by 2 small figures. Beneath these is the inscription "that awful day Will surely come/ the appointed hour makes haste /When I must Stand before my Judge/ and pass my Solemn test 1834" This is the first verse of four from the hymn by Dr. Isaac Watts' (1674-1748) in "Hymns & Spiritual Songs", 1707-1709, The lower part of the sampler carries a depiction of Adam and Eve flanked by more symmetrically arranged traditional motifs. Sarah Rippon is worked either side of the pictorial centre. Sarah may have been the daughter of William & Mary Rippon and christened on the 8th June, 1823, Grimston, Leicester title: sampler LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Butcher Collection STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225701 CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ CREATORS -------- maker: Sarah Rippon DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 30.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 32