ENGLISH SCHOOLGIRL NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER.Worked by Maria Mahr, aged 11 and Margare McEwan, 1824. Incorporating verses and alphabet rows, over a tree-lined house with orchard, and containing a farmer and his dog. Worked in polychrome silk threads, on a linen ground - 18 1/4 in. x 13 in., sight size. Estimate $700-1,000
PROVENANCE: Sotheby's Arcade Auctions, lot 279
Colors have faded with time and linen ground has thinned. Verses and alphabet is legible. Without holes or tears.
