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Description: | Artist: Eggleston, Elizabeth, maker; Date(s): 1746; Classification(s): embroidery, sampler, weaving, Linen bands sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, marking cross, satin, Algerian eye, eyelet, stem, buttonhole and hemstitch. All the edges are hemmed.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Clarke, Grace, Miss, 1940, Bequeathed by Miss Grace Clarke [T.18-1940]
Description: Band sampler, linen, embroidered in polychrome silks in a variety of stitches. Divided into thirteen horizontal bands featuring inscriptions, narrow repeating border patterns, a flowerpot top left and right and a wider bottom band with a central flowering plant and a balanced arrangement of detached motifs. | 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: | Eggleston, Elizabeth embroidery sampler | Temporal: | name=18th century; start=1746; end=1746 | 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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