Not currently on display at the V&A

Sampler

1824 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
England (made)

Sampler of wool embroidered with blue, pink and red silks, showing animals, plants, birds, Adam and Eve beneath the Tree of Knowledge, a verse and the identity of the embroiderer


Object details

Categories
Embroidery
Children & Childhood
Christianity
Textiles
Object type
Sampler
Materials and techniques
Wool embroidered with silk
Wool
Silk
Embroidering
Brief description
embroidered, 1824, English; Coloured silks on wool, Mary Ann Davis
Physical description
Sampler of wool embroidered with blue, pink and red silks, showing animals, plants, birds, Adam and Eve beneath the Tree of Knowledge, a verse and the identity of the embroiderer
Dimensions
  • Length: 52cm
  • Width: 42.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • The return of the / Spies Nums Chap the XIII / Verse the 23d (Numbers 13:23)
  • Let gratitude in acts of goodness flow Your love to God in love to man below Be this your joy to calm the troubled breast Support the weak and succour the distrest Direct the wandrer dry the widows tear The orphan guard the sinking spirits cheer Tho small your pow'r to act tho mean your skill God sees the heart he judges by the will
  • Mary Ann Daviss work (Embroiderer)
  • Done in the year 1828
Subjects depicted
Grapes
Birds
Deer
Fruit
Trees
People
Adam and Eve
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
CIRC.327-1920

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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