- 1815 signed needlework sampler, 'Virtue's
the chiefest beauty of the mind/The noblest ornament of humankind/virtue's our safeguard and our guiding star/that stirs up reason when our senses err', signed Celia Foot...
[more like this] - FRAMED SAMPLER "Betsy Purinton Watson,
Salem, Mass. April 28th 1828", complicated pale blue monochromatic fine woolwork on linen, two alphabets, sentiments: Washington and Lafayette supported by Virtue and Charity...
[more like this] - FRAMED SCHOOLGIRL SAMPLER "OH VIRTUE"
BY MARY CRABca. 1795 dated; silk thread embroidery on non-bleached homespun cloth with trailing strawberry vine border, poetical verse entitled "OH Virtue" and extensive scene...
[more like this] - MID 19TH C. NEEDLEPOINT SAMPLERA needlepoint
sampler, "On Virtue" verse with Georgian schoolhouse centre, signed by "Ellen Daniels, Aged 11, 1840", decorated with potted plants, flowers & birds, in a walnut frame. Condition...
[more like this] - Susannah Feldwick (b. 1779) Attractive
embroidered \"Virtue\'s Path\" linen sampler, dated May 22, 1788, presented in a narrow parcel-gilt black-painted wooden frame in the Georgian style and glazed, h. 16-3/4\",...
[more like this] - Susannah Feldwick (b. 1779) Attractive
embroidered \"Virtue\'s Path\" linen sampler, dated May 22, 1788, presented in a narrow parcel-gilt black-painted wooden frame in the Georgian style and glazed, h. 16-3/4\",...
[more like this] - 'VIRTUE'' SAMPLER BY ELIZABETH BAGULEY
APRIL 12TH, 1800: Exceptional needlework sampler with symmetrical pattern framing pious verse. With potted plants & topiaries, small animals, deer, birds, and peacock at the...
[more like this] - BOSTON NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER 19TH CENTURY
5.25” X 8” SIGHT. FRAMED 6.25” X 8.75”.BOSTON NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, 19th Century, Wrought by "Elizabeth Adlard Goodger Boston.". Rows of alphabets and numerals above...
[more like this] - 1843 MAINE SAMPLER Wool on Linen, three
alphabets with sentiment "Beauty is a blossom that fadeth away But virtue is a Jewel that never will decay". Signed at bottom "Helen B. Lippincott. Aged 15 years, 1843". The...
[more like this] - FRAMED SCHOOL GIRL EMBROIDERED SAMPLERca.
1803 dated; of Sidney H. Ashbridge; mixed silk and cotton thread embroidered sampler on homespun linen with trailing strawberry vine border, with seven lines of mixed embroidered...
[more like this] - (2) Needlework samplers to include alphanumeric
sampler with verse reading "Seek virtue and of that posest, to providence resign the rest" (as spoken by Benjamin Franklin) illegible name, aged 10", in blooming floral vine...
[more like this] - SAMPLER. Probably English, silk on finely
woven linen. Alphabets, crowns and verse on "Virtue" with "Bridget Foley, her sampler finished September the 22, 1814". Loss. 12"h. 10"w., framed, 17.5"h. 15.5"w....
[more like this] - Scottish needlework sampler third
quarter 18th century Worked in green and red silks on wool with a four line verse beginning 'Virtue's the chiefest Beauty of the Mind...', alphabet and number series, ...
[more like this] - SAMPLER. American 1811 silk on linen.
Ten-year-old Martha Fay worked an inner border of diamonds around sets of alphabets a verse extolling the virtues of education and a pictorial section including a large...
[more like this] - English Quaker Sampler Wortley Schoolearly
19th century silk on linen with encircled verse on ''Virtue'' and maker's name and school stitched beneath ''Mary Hepper / Wortley School''; presented in an early gilt and...
[more like this] - An American Needlework Sampler dated
1806 worked by Margaret aged 19 (Brunswick ME 1806). Embroidered in blue and red silk on linen with two alphabets above a lower register which reads: 'was born August th6/...
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