An Ackworth School oval sampler by Elizabeth Snowden, worked in brown silks to a linen ground, with verse entitled 'Religion', 'Relgion naturally tends to all that is great, worthy, and noble and the true spirit of it, not only composes, but cheers the soul. Though it banishes all levity of behaviour, all vicious and dissolute mirth, yet in exchange it fills the mind with perpetual serenity and uniterrupted pleasure, the contemplation of divine mercy and power and the exercise of virtue, are in their own nature so far from excluding all gladness of heart, that in principal and constant sources of it.' within a glazed and ebonised frame-- 13.5 x 11.5in. (34 x 29cm), circa 1795