AMERICAN NEEDLEWORK PICTORAL SAMPLER.made by Roseanna Longworth, 1847. Floral border centering a verse reading "Why should I think it yet to(o) soon, To seek for heaven or think of death, A flower may fade before its noon, And I this day may lose my breath", over a spire and trees, surrounded by flowering urns, set within a floral border. Polychrome wool threads worked on a linen ground. Framed - 19 1/2 in. x 15 in., sight size. Estimate $600-800
