Maker:
Unknown; production
Collection:
J.W.L. Glaisher
Category:
embroidery
Name:
sampler
Other Name:
band sampler; category
Date:
1748
Period:
18th century
Description:
Linen band sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, long-armed cross, double running, threaded running stitch and various over cast drawn thread stitches. The sides are hemmed and there is a selvedge at the top and a raw edge at the bottom. The sampler is organised in horizontal bands containing stylized floral and geometric patterns and in the top band the inscription 'DENOB. e DE 48/LOA. CABOEN 24/ GELITAFLORES/ DEMANO DEAN.' worked out.
Production
Place:
Spain
Production
Place (legacy):
Spain, production, country
Spanish, nationality
Technique(s):
weaving; whole
embroidery; whole; cross, long-armed cross, double running, threaded running stitch and various over cast drawn thread stitches
Material(s):
linen; whole
silk; whole
Technique
Description:
Linen band sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, long-armed cross, double running, threaded running stitch and various over cast drawn thread stitches. The sides are hemmed and there is a selvedge at the top and a raw edge at the bottom.
Dimension(s):
length, 68.5, cm
width, 17, cm
length, 27.3/4, in
width, 7.1/8, in
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1928-12-07; Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr
Acquisition Credit:
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Inscription:
name and date; top band of the sampler; embroidery; DENOB. e DE 48/LOA. CABOEN 24/ GELITAFLORES/ DEMANO DEAN; embroidered in dark blue silk thread; read from the bottom line up the inscription provides the name of the maker and the date of production
Exhibition(s):
Samplers. 1993-06-15 - 1993-09-26
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: Octagon Gallery
Documentation:
Humphrey, Carol. 1997. Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Samplers.Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Pressp. 96
Publ. No. 43
Humphrey, Carol. 1993. Sampler Exhibition in the Octagon.Cambridge (Cambs.):
Accession:
Object Number: T.182-1928
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 110728; input: 2004-11-05; modified: 2012-09-20)
Permanent
Identifier:
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