The Fitzwilliam Museum has provided pictures of the front and back sides of schoolgirl samplers! It is amazing how neat and reversible these are.
For Mary Derow's sampler dated 1723 (shown below), please visit https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/samplers/schoolgirl/derow/index.html
Mary Culley's sampler dated 1790 can be found here:
https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/samplers/schoolgirl/culley/index.html
Mary Tipper's sampler dated 1868 can be found here:
https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/samplers/schoolgirl/tipper/index.html
There are more samplers available to view on the Fitzwilliam Museum website.
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