Description

Embroidered sampler, unbleached canvas ground worked with coloured wools and brown cotton thread, mainly in cross stitch, and eyelet and satin stitches, hem stitching around edges, giving a simple frame, in centre, rows of alphabets and numbers, runing floral borders and crowne, below, legend reads "Ann Balm 10 years of age/ the sense of honour is of so fine/ and delicate a nature that it is , only to be met with in minds that are truly noble other wise cultivated by a refined education b remember the greater in the a days of the youth". sevages at left and right sides, hemmed at top and bottom