A sampler by Mary Barber, 1794, worked in coloured silks, with a verse "On Education", with spot motifs of birds and flowers and a field of sheep below flanked by trees and stags, framed by a border of stylised trailing carnations--12½in x 18in.

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A sampler by Mary Barber, 1794, worked in coloured silks, with a verse "On Education", with spot motifs of birds and flowers and a field of sheep below flanked by trees and stags, framed by a border of stylised trailing carnations--12½in x 18in.

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