1857 Paper Sampler by Elizabeth McMillan. Framed in an old wood frame with gilt slip and glass. Mounted to conservator standards on acid free card with card backing. The sampler is worked in a silk-like thread on punched paper ground, in a variety of stitches. No border, divider lines in various patterns. Colours navy blue, cream, greens and gold. Alphabets A-Z in upper case and lower case, numbers 1-9, and family names and initials. Verse reads 'Sweet is the opening flower> Which just begins to bloom> Which every day and every hour> Fresh beauties will assume> But sweeter that young heart> Where faith and love and peace> Blossom and bloom in every Part> With sweet and varied grace'. Signed and dated 'Elizabeth McMillan April 1857'. A few flower motifs.
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Dimensions
10.75ins by 7.25ins wide
Circa Date
Victorian, dated April 1857
Description
1857 Paper Sampler by Elizabeth McMillan. Framed in an old wood frame with gilt slip and glass. Mounted to conservator standards on acid free card with card backing. The sampler is worked in a silk-like thread on punched paper ground, in a variety of stitches. No border, divider lines in various patterns. Colours navy blue, cream, greens and gold. Alphabets A-Z in upper case and lower case, numbers 1-9, and family names and initials. Verse reads 'Sweet is the opening flower> Which just begins to bloom> Which every day and every hour> Fresh beauties will assume> But sweeter that young heart> Where faith and love and peace> Blossom and bloom in every Part> With sweet and varied grace'. Signed and dated 'Elizabeth McMillan April 1857'. A few flower motifs.
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