Object Number: N1426

Collection: Applied Art

Object Name: sampler

Description: Coloured silks on wool, blue-striped selvedges at sides, top and bottom hemmed. Cross, satin, Algerian eye stitches. Stylised floral meander border. Verse between two flower vases; centre section empty; floral meander; band of small motifs: trees, flowers, birds. Signed and dated in bottom band. Verse: 'In Books or Work or healthful Play Let my first Years be past That I may give for ev'ry Day Some good Account at last Just as the Tree cut down that fell To North or Southward there it lies So Man departs to Heav'n or Hell Fix'd in the State wherein he dies'