Wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross stitch.
33cm x 37cm
13" x 14 5/8"
Wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross stitch.
Floral repeat framing border enclosing three separate sections. The top with a central tree flanked byflower pots, deer, flower baskets. The central section has depiction of the Temptation of Adam & Eve flanked by various traditional detached motifs The lower section contains the inscription workedabove a crown, lion, leopard, flower branches & pots.
The verse is "Virtue's the Chiefest beauty of the Mind.....", beneath it "Elizabeth Gatford Hazelgrove finished this sampler/November 13 18??/ Aged ?? Years"
Elizabeth was probably the daughter of John Haazelgrove (born Cuckfield 1797),. named as a nariner in the 1841 census, and she probably married Thomas Harding (born c.1820) 24 th September 1848, a farm baillif in the 1871 census.
Height: 32.5 cm
Width: 36.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2018-01-29) by Butcher, Mr & Mrs
1800 - 1900
Accession number: T.45-2018
Primary reference Number: 225714
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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