IDENTIFIERS
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id:	317263
accession number:	T.1-2024

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 2 April 2024
updated:	Tuesday 25 November 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Needlework sampler with alphabet and number lines above five lines of religious verse, and a repeating border, worked by Susannah Edwards, a ‘Liberated African’, in a Church Missionary School, in Bathurst, Sierra Leone, Africa, in December 1833, for a UK-based sponsor.
title:	sampler

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Cheffin’s, Cambridge, Fine Sale 21 March 2024 (lot 406), from where purchased


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
creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2024

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/317263





TECHNIQUES
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Sampler canvas (linen or cotton), with coloured silk or cotton thread embroidery
embroidery

CATEGORIES
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category: textile

DATING
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creation date:	1833 - 1833
creation date earliest:	1833
creation date latest:	1833
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Edwards, Susannah
maker: Weeks, Mrs

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 34

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 21.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition