Maker:
Unknown; production
Collection:
J.W.L. Glaisher
Category:
embroidery
Name:
sampler
Other Name:
spot motif sampler; category
Date:
after 1601 — before 1701
Period:
17th Century
Description:
Linen sampler embroidered with coloured silk threads worked in tent, cross, rice, double running, faggot, rococo and Hungarian stitch. There is a single blue selvedge at the top and bottom and the sides are hemmed. About thirty detached geometric and floral motifs and all-over patterns, including one of a squirrel and strawberries.
Production
Place:
England
Production
Place (legacy):
England, production, country
English, nationality
Technique(s):
weaving; whole
embroidering; whole; tent, cross, rice, double running, faggot, rococo and Hungarian stitch
Material(s):
linen; whole
silk; whole
Technique
Description:
Linen sampler embroidered with coloured silk threads worked in tent, cross, rice, double running, faggot, rococo and Hungarian stitch. There is a single blue selvedge at the top and bottom and the sides are hemmed.
Dimension(s):
length, 52, cm
width, 21.25, cm
length, 21.1/4, in
width, 8.3/4, in
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1928-12-07; Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr
Acquisition Credit:
Dr J.W.L Glaisher Bequest
Exhibition(s):
English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam. 1984-07-10 - 1984-09-14
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: Octagon Gallery
Documentation:
Humphrey, Carol. 1984. English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam.Cambridge (Cambs.): The Fitzwilliam Museump. 2
Publ. no. 3
Ashton, Leigh. 1926. Samplers.Plymouth: The Mayflower Press
Accession:
Object Number: T.10-1928
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 110557; input: 2004-11-05; modified: 2012-10-04)
Permanent
Identifier:
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