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Description: | Artist: Wood, Mary, maker; Date(s): 1842; Classification(s): embroidery, sampler, weaving, Border sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch, lined with Brussels net and bound with dark red ribbon; Acquisition: bequeathed by Longman, H.A. Mrs, 1938, Mrs H.A. Longman bequest [T.65-1938]
Description: Pictorial sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch, lined with Brussels net and bound with dark red ribbon. A spiral design border frames the main body of the sampler which comprises two sections. The top section has the Crucifixion of Christ, two female figures, two thieves and headed by the inscription ' (Look) with humility' worked. The bottom section is taken up with a square puzzle of 23*23 letters. The instruction above reads 'Begin to read at the J in the centre'. In doing so one reads Jesus Christ can save us now'. To the left and right plants, one in a vase the other in a two handed basket are worked. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Wood, Mary embroidery sampler | Temporal: | name=19th century; start=1842; end=1842 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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