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Click here to subscribeAn early 19th century needlework sampler by Ann Ryman, worked in coloured silks depicting a house and garden with a shepherd, sheep, a dog and its kennel, above a religious text, Religious solace sooths the troubled mind..., within a meandering stylised floral border, embroidered Ann Ryman, May 12 1818, and mounted as a pole screen
A George III linen crosstitch sampler by Elizabeth Mchray, worked with a verse Wisdom is an evenness of soul, A steady temper which no cares control, No passions alive no desires aflame, Still constant to itself and still the same, above the initials 'R.M.' 'X.M.M.', dated 1793, with a picture of a house flanked by a fruiting pomegranete tree and a fruiting palm tree, within a meandering geometric and stylised floral border, 43.5 x 33 cm
An early 19th century sampler by Barbara Howell, aged 10, worked in coloured silks on linen with alphabets above a stylised floral border, and a verse, All you my friends who now expect to see, A piece of needle work performed by me..., and below this, a series of motifs including a stag at the top of a grassy hillock, butterflies, swans, a basket of flowers, etc., within a meandering stylised floral border, dated July 20, 1820, 39.5 x 31.5 cm
A George II linen crosstitch and Algerian eye sampler by Jane Russell, worked in coloured silks with alphabets, numbers and a religous verse, Grant Lord that whilst these lines write...,above stylised borders of carnations and other flowers, below which is a motif of a squirrel nibbling a nut, dated March 12th, 1742, 39.5 x 19.5 cm
A William IV needlework sampler - "Mary Ann Mitton finish'd this work the 9th November 1832", worked with religious verse, stylised fence and garden complete with birds and animals and within trailing floral border on linen ground, 17ins x 12.5ins, framed and glazed (discoloured and thread to verse disintegrating on some letters)
A George II linen sampler by Mary Oliver, embroidered with a verse 'O happy morning...', above a stylised frieze of carnations and roses, stylised flower buds below, above a band of Bargello stitch and satin stitch, and numbers, within an floral border, embroidered with name and 'In the 12 year of her age', dated 1728, 32 x 19 cm (12 1/2 x 7 1/2 in)
An early Victorian wool sampler by Susan Goody, aged 11 years, designed with a scene of birds and butterflies flanked by figures in military dress, above a verse, 'Why should we start and fear to die..', with two paddle steamers, dancing figures, squirrels, peacocks and stylised trees, named and dated within a floral garland, 'September 12th, 1846', within a meandering floral border, 41cm high (16in) x 32 cm wide (12 1/2in)