Lot Essay
Inscribed, "Let no fond love for earth exact 2 sigh:/No doubts divert my steady steps aside:/Nor let me long to live, nor dread to die: Heav'n is hope and Providence my guide.
PROBABLY MID-ATLANTIC STATES, 1830-1840
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A SILK ON LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Probably Mid-Atlantic States, 1830-1840
Worked in blue, green, cream, mustard and brown threads depicting a landscape with castellated building, house, and sheep headed by a verse inscribed within a zig-zag border, all enclosed by bird and floral and Greek-key borders
21 x 24.5/8in. (sight)
Probably Mid-Atlantic States, 1830-1840
Worked in blue, green, cream, mustard and brown threads depicting a landscape with castellated building, house, and sheep headed by a verse inscribed within a zig-zag border, all enclosed by bird and floral and Greek-key borders
21 x 24.5/8in. (sight)