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Description: | Artist: Storey, Eliza, maker; Date(s): 1799; Classification(s): embroidery, sampler, weaving, Border sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross and hem stitch; Acquisition: given by Gow, Andrew S.F., 1941-01-01, Given by Andrew S.F. Gow [T.2-1941]
Description: Border sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross and hem stitch. A strawberry border frames the main body of the sampler which comprises eight horizontal bands separated by narrow border designs. The top four bands contain an alphabet a lozenge and a heart. Bands five and six another alphabet and numerals 1-5; band seven has more numerals, two crowns, two hearts a square and a lozenge and band eight comprises the inscription 'WORKd by Eliza Storey Leeds 1799'. | 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: | embroidery sampler Storey, Eliza | Temporal: | name=18th century; start=1799; end=1799 | 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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