Maker:
Billingsley, Elizabeth; maker
Collection:
J.W.L. Glaisher
Category:
embroidery
Name:
sampler
Other Name:
band sampler; category
Date:
1653
Commonwealth
Period:
mid 17th century
Description:
Linen sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in double running, cross, long-armed cross, Montenegrin cross, arrowhead cross, satin and trellis stitch. All four sides are hemmed. There are seventeen bands of mainly floral with some geometric horizontal repeating border patterns, one containing 'boxers'. Two bands contain the inscription 'ELIzAbetH BILLINgzley Her/ ZAMPLer FINIzhed the 19 IVLY/1653'.
Production
Place:
England
Production
Place (legacy):
England, production, country
English, nationality
Production
Note:
The sampler may have been worked from both ends
Technique(s):
weaving; whole
embroidering; whole; double running, cross, long-armed cross, Montenegrin cross, arrowhead cross, satin and trellis stitch
Material(s):
linen; whole
silk; whole; polychrome
Technique
Description:
Linen sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in double running, cross, long-armed cross, Montenegrin cross, arrowhead cross, satin and trellis stitch. All four sides are hemmed
Dimension(s):
length, 72, cm
width, 19, cm
length, 29.3/4, in
width, 7.7/8, in
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1928-12-07; Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr
Acquisition Credit:
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Inscription:
name and date; inside two horizontal bands; embroidery; ELIzAbetH BILLINgzley Her/ ZAMPLer FINIzhed the 19 IVLY/1653; embroidered in silk thread; name of maker and date the sampler was completed
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. 6
Publ. no. 13
Accession:
Object Number: T.17-1928
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 110564; input: 2004-11-05; modified: 2012-10-04)
Permanent
Identifier:
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