A sampler by Mary Wilkinson 1797, worked in coloured silks and other threads, with a verse "Happy the soul", and a top band of decoration of cottages and barns, and shepherds herding animals, a second band of trees and houses, a church and a windmill, the embroideress's name and date within a naturalistic flower frame, the whole within a stylised floral border--12½in x 14in., framed and glazed