A sampler by Eliza Matilda Excell, Bear street 1839, worked in green, crimson, cream and brown silks with a verse and below, a brick house flanked by soldiers and flowering bushes, with topiary trees and fencing in front, and many small spot motifs above, within a stylised bud border and outer decoration of crimson silks--12 x 16in. (30 x 40cm), framed and glazed