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AN ENGLISH SAMPLER BY LOUISA DICKENSON MARTIN
Dated 1820
Embroidered in fresh coloured silks with a central house flanked by two stylised trees, with mainly floral spot motifs above with a pair of cherubs, the verse "I ask not wealth" below bordered with baskets of fruit, stags, a squirrel and other spot motifs, within a stylised floral border with strawberries, framed and glazed, slight holing to ground
17 in. x 20 in. (43 cm. x 50 cm.)
Dated 1820
Embroidered in fresh coloured silks with a central house flanked by two stylised trees, with mainly floral spot motifs above with a pair of cherubs, the verse "I ask not wealth" below bordered with baskets of fruit, stags, a squirrel and other spot motifs, within a stylised floral border with strawberries, framed and glazed, slight holing to ground
17 in. x 20 in. (43 cm. x 50 cm.)