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Description: | Artist: Collins, Caroline, maker; Date(s): 1820 - 1830; Classification(s): embroidery, sampler, weaving, Border sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch; Acquisition: given by Cooke, Alice J. Miss, 1946-07-25, Given by Miss Alice J. Cooke [T.1-1946]
Description: Border sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch. A waved stem, flower bud and leaf border frames the main body of the sampler which comprises four horizontal bands. These include alphabets, numerals, waved stem borders with geometrical flowers, a large crown, a fruit basket, a flower in a two handled vase, a flowering plant in a pot, clipped bushes, the name and date 'Caroline Collins, aged 11, George IV 1820-1830' and the verse 'On Charity/ Charity, decent, modest, easy, kind/Softens the high and rears the abject mind/knows with just reins and gentle hand to guide/Betwixt vile shame and arbitrary pride/Not soon provoked she easily forgives/ and much she suffers as she believes'. | 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: | Collins, Caroline embroidery sampler | Temporal: | name=19th century; start=1820; end=1830 | 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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