Unframed 'Childhood' verse Sampler by Ann Clark
Circa 1810. 16.5ins by 12.5ins wide. Circa 1810 Sampler by Ann Clark. Unframed.
The sampler is worked in silk on linen ground, in cross stitch throughout.
Meandering strawberry border.
Colours blue, green, purple and peach. Alphabets A-Z in upper case and lower case and numbers 1-12.
Verse entitled 'CHILDHOOD' reads
'CHILDHOOD happieft ftage of life
Free from care and free from ftrife
Free from memoryf ruthleff reign
Fraught With fcenef of former pain
Free from fancyf cruel fkill
Fabricating future ill
Time When all that meetf the VieW
All can charm for ???? New
How thY long loft hourf I mourn
never never to return'
other verses read
'REMEMBER now thY Creator in the
dayf of thY Youth While the evil dayf
come not nor the yearf draw nigh When
thou fhalt faY I haVe no pleafure in them'
and
'Be Wife O
daY tif madneff
to defer'
and
'The fear of
the Lord if the
beginning of Wif-
dom'.
Signed 'Ann.Clark Aged 9 Yearf.'
CONDITION: Fair. A number of holes.
No stains other than uniform age darkening of the ground. No stitch losses other than to the holed areas.
Colours are slightly faded, but still well defined. No colour run.
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