IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225716 accession number: T.47-2018 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 21 November 2018 updated: Monday 16 December 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cotton, embroidered with polychrome cottons. 26.75cm x 42cm 10 1/2" x 16 1/2" Quite randomly placed mixture of traditional motifs e.g. flower buds, squirrel, perching birds, repeat patterns etc as well as figurative motifs possibly derived from nursery rhyme characters e.g. Mary had a Little Lamb, Little Boy Blue. There are also three playing cards arranged in a fan like corner motif. The nursery rhyme motifs resemble those found on tiles made for nurseries especially hospital children's wards, at the beginning of the 20th century. There are three decorative upper case initials, " K P I" in the lower right corner with an "M" above. 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/225716 CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1875 - 1925 creation date earliest: 1875 creation date latest: 1925 DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 38.1