1833 Sampler by Eleanor May. Framed in an old wood frame with gilt slip and glass. Mounted to conservator standards on acid free card with chipboard backing. The sampler is worked in silk on linen ground, in a variety of stitches. Meandering strawberry border. Colours greens, cream, white, black, blues and red. Verse entitled 'CONTENTMENT' reads, 'Temper misfortunes ever with content,>So rightly use the life that heaven hath lent,>What tho' no gilded fret work mark your door,>Short is the time that levels rich and poor>Let none repine whatever woes enthral>He who made all things soon may alter all.'. Signed and dated 'Eleanor May Work'd this in the Twelfth year of her Age in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Thirty three'. A good set of motifs, including a house, birds, trees, laden with fruit, fir trees, moths and potted flowering plants
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Dimensions
16.5ins by 13ins wide
Circa Date
William IV, dated 1833
Description
1833 Sampler by Eleanor May. Framed in an old wood frame with gilt slip and glass. Mounted to conservator standards on acid free card with chipboard backing. The sampler is worked in silk on linen ground, in a variety of stitches. Meandering strawberry border. Colours greens, cream, white, black, blues and red. Verse entitled 'CONTENTMENT' reads, 'Temper misfortunes ever with content,>So rightly use the life that heaven hath lent,>What tho' no gilded fret work mark your door,>Short is the time that levels rich and poor>Let none repine whatever woes enthral>He who made all things soon may alter all.'. Signed and dated 'Eleanor May Work'd this in the Twelfth year of her Age in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Thirty three'. A good set of motifs, including a house, birds, trees, laden with fruit, fir trees, moths and potted flowering plants
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