A GOOD EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, by "Sarah Schofield. Work 1846", stitched with a fune

A GOOD EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, by "Sarah Schofield. Work 1846", stitched with a funereal verse ("Stoop down my thoughts that use to rise...") flanked by angel musicians, a flower, and a chalice and cross, above perching birds, a young girl seated in a landscape, a tan-and-white dog, in turn flanked by a vase of flowers and a church with shepherd and four sheep, above a large mill (with handwritten note of provenance verso from a descendant of Sarah Schofield, suggesting that the mill was based on an actual building in Rochdale, Lancashire), with birds flying above, a lawn with birds and cats below, and a verse "Let me die the death of the righteous...", flanked by two girls holding wreaths or baskets and a woman with bird beside her, both above flowers, within a berry border, the whole of especially good colour and condition, 59cm x 57cm (23.2in x 22.4in), in modern frame under glass