- Maker
- Brooks, Mary
- Date made
- 1792
- Origin
- England
- Stitches
- Cross, Satin, Stem.
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Wool
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 1 alphabet: missing the u. Numbers 1-21. At the center top a bee skep with many bees hovering a hanging baskets of flowers on each side. Across the bottom a scene with trees, small plants and a girl on the L and the R. A flowering vine with flowers and leaves. Arcaded inner border and outer reversing arcaded strawberry border with strawberries.
- Inscription
- How doth the little busy bee / improve each Shining hour, And gather / honey all the day From every open / flower / How skillfully she builds her cell, How / neat She Spreads the wax: And labours / hard to store it well. With the sweet / food the she makes. In works of labour or / of skill I would be busy too. For / Satan finds Some mischief still For idle / hands to do. In books or work or healt / hful play, Let my first year be past, / That I may give for every day / Some good account at last. (In a leaf cartouche): Mary Brooks / Finish'd this sampler / in the Year 1792 / / (Note: Song 20 from Divine and Moral Songs for Children by Dr. Isaac Watts). //
- Length Without Frame
- 44 cm
- Width Without Frame
- 32.75 cm
- Historical Owner
- #T.42-1938 Bequest of Mrs. H.A. Longman
- Owner
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Owner Private
- Fitzwilliam Museum