Dimensions
20.3ins high, 20.1ins wide, 0.8ins deep
Circa Date
Early 19thC, circa 1820
Description - ID#22226
Early 19thC Sampler by Harriett Bayliss. The sampler is worked in silk on linen ground, in a variety of stitches. Meandering floral border. Colours brown, cream, green, copper, pink, black and blue. Alphabets A-Z in upper case and numbers 1-30 Verse entitled 'ON INDUSTRY' reads 'The Industrious Bee Extracts From Every Flower> Its Fragrant's Sweets And Mild Blaspheme Power>
Learn Hence with Greatest care And Nicest skill> To Take The Good And To Reject The Ill> By Her Examble Taught Enrich Thy Mind> With Native Eloquence And Sence Refined> Be Thou The Honey comb In Whom May Dwell> Each Mental Sweet Nor Leave One Vacant Cell'. Signed and dated 'Harriet Bayliss Her Work Finished In The 10th year of Her Age June the Twenty 4th'. A good set of motifs, some finely detailed, including a house with a garden, farmers, stars, dogs, birds, angels, potted flowering plants, trees, laden with fruit, stags, fruit baskets, fir trees, crowns, butterflies and peacocks. Framed in an old wood frame with rippled, old glass. Mounting: The sampler is stitched to linen over acid free mountboard. Frame backed with card.
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