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Description: | Artist: Gibbons, Ann, maker; Date(s): 1769 - 1770; Classification(s): embroidery, sampler, weaving, Band sampler, woollen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross and eyelet hole stitch; Acquisition: given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1944, Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum [T.2-1944]
Description: Band sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross and eyelet hole stitch. The sampler comprises 13 horizontal bands which include alphabets, vowels, numerals, a band of Greek key border pattern, lily plants, a small bird in flight, a fruit basket, crowns, flowering plants, a tree and the inscriptions 'Adorn Thy Self With Grace Prize Wisdom More/Then All The Pearls Upon The Indian Shore/Fear God Be Dutiful To Your Parents', 'My Friends I Hope Your Pleased And So Shall I/If This My Work I May Get Credit By/Much Labour And Much Time It Hath Me Cost/I Will take Care That None O It Be Lost', and 'Ann Gibbons Finished This Sampler February 21/In The Year 1770 At Town Malling Kent Age 12' | 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: | Gibbons, Ann embroidery sampler | Temporal: | name=18th century; start=1769; end=1770 | 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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