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Description: | Artist: Unidentified; Date(s): 1756; Classification(s): embroidery, sampler, weaving, Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch; Acquisition: bequeathed by Longman, H.A. Mrs, 1938, Mrs H.A. Longman Bequest [T.100-1938]
Description: Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch. The sampler is divided into four sections. The first band contains some 33 detached motifs including birds (owl, peacock, parrot on a perch), coronets, crowns, flowers in a vase, fruit trees (one with two birds on it, one with two dogs below it) and a wreath with the initials 'CSD. The second and third bands depict crowns, three alphabets and numerals (1-8, 1-9, 1-13). The final band has about 20 repeat border designs 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: | Unidentified embroidery sampler | Temporal: | name=18th century; start=1756; end=1756 | 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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