1832 Religious Irish Sampler by Mary Anne Enright

William IV, dated 1832. 20ins by 14ins wide. 1832 Religious Irish Sampler by Mary Anne Enright. Framed in an old wood frame with rippled, dimpled, old glass.

Mounted to conservator standards on acid free card with chipboard backing.

The sampler is worked in a silk-like thread on linen ground, in a variety of stitches.

Floral border.

Colours browns, cream, blue, gold, greens and black. Alphabets A-Z in upper case and lower case.

Inscription entitled

'THE BIBLE'

reads

'HOLY BIBLE BOOK divine

PRECIOUS treasure thou art mine

Mine to tell me Whence I came

Mine to teach me what I am

Mine to chide me when I rove

Mine to shew a saviour's Love

Mine art thou to guide my feet

Mine to judge condemn acquit

Mine to comfort in distrefs

Mine to lead to Promises

Mine to warn of sinner's doom

Mine to teach that doom to shun

Mine to shew the living faith

Mine to triumph over death

Mine to tell of joys to come

Mine to bring an earnest home

Mine to point me to the road

Mine to lead my heart to God

O'thou precious Book divine

PRECIOUS treasure thou art mine'

Verse entitled

'THE CHRISTIANs CONFIDENCE'

reads

'GREAT Author of good to thee would I fly

When clouds gather blacknefs portending a ftorm

Be thou my protection and shield me from harm

From what thou haft done in years that are fled

What blefsing thy love upon me hath fled

O help me to trust thee nor dubt of thy care

When dangers furround me thy love will be there

Should forrow and pain and poverty join

Should friends turn away and with foes fhould combine

Wei fure of thy favours my covenant God

Id trust in thy goodnefs and bow to thy rod

Should mortal disease bring death to my view

And should I be cast'd the dark vale to go through

Its gloom and its shadows shall all disappear

My Father my Guardian my God will be there

My spirit emerg'd from this dwelling of clay

With pleasures untold fhall wing its glad way

And take full pofsefsion of that glorious throne

And call all the treasures of heaven my own

My own through the purchase of Jesus blood

My own through the mercy and goodnefs of God'.

Signed and dated 'Mary Anne Enright Sligo 1832'.

Sligo is the county town of County Sligo in Ireland.

CONDITION: Generally Good.

A number of holes, and losses to the ground.

A number of patchy stains.

Some stitch losses to the verse and border (mainly to holed areas).

Colours are all good and strong with no noticeable fading.

Some colour run around the black threads.

Neatly and evenly stretched.

Frame in good condition, ready to hang.

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