A sampler by Jane Staggs 1816, Mrs Kirby Teacher, finely worked in mainly shades of green and brown silks with details in white, blue and yellow, with two verses surmounted by a frieze of elegant houses flanked by flowers, and a main picture of a shepherdess with her flock and a large castellated house behind, with bands of stylised and realistic flowers--12½ x 16½in. (31 x 41cm), framed and glazed See Illustration