Sampler book
Ann Lucas
Category
Education objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card, paper and fabric
Measurements
277 mm (height); 223 mm (width)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671429
Summary
A sampler album made of card and paper, hand-stitched at the spine. Each page has stitched to it an example of the exercise in needlecraft necessary in that craft. The detail in some embroidery indicates that Ann Lucas was responsible for this work dated 1836, at Worthing National School. The cover is brown in colour, the spine perhaps originally white.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by the Misses Bent in August 1948. Archival records information - "The collection was established as a result of isolated gifts in the 1940's, and the 'savings' of certain school records (now passed to County Records) during wartime paper salvage." "During the 1950s it was L.E.A. practice to hold an Easter Course for teachers, and the County (Derbyshire) Museum arranged a special exhibition for teach course. As by the mid 1950s quite a collection had already accumulated, it was decided to produce an exhibition on the history of education with special reference to Derbyshire. Consequently, further material was purchased, from which items were selected. The exhibition was subsequently shown at a number of centres, and after disbandment, additions continued to be made with the aim of eventually producing a reconstructed classroom as a base for research. The Derby Bishop Lonsdale College of Education has frequently made use of the collection in various ways."
Makers and roles
Ann Lucas, author