A sampler by Sophia Tabitha Hogson 1789 worked in freshly coloured silks in shades of pink, blue, green and yellow in cross stitch, with an alphabet and numerals, bands of floral spot motifs and verses including "Let me like the Bee every moment improve", within a stylised floral border--16½ x 15¾in. (41 x 39cm.), framed and glazed