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Alphabet/Verse Sampler. Vertical rectangle, natural linen ground. Small cross stitch border, yellow and green. Alphabets at top, verse at middle and bottom. Four alphabets all missing J, U Numbers: "1-10"; cross stitch, eyelet hole.
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Sampler
""In fair proportion Fee the Letters hand a useful beautous and expressive hand./Let truth and virtue be your guide. And wisdom over all your ways preside./MEMORY/Remembered Love, life pleasing dreams,/Leave sweet impressions on the heart,/When through life's cloud affection beams/It takes from woe its keenest dart"" ""ELIZABETH BARRELL/ AGED 13 YEARS 1812"" (verse, maker's name and date)
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Barrell, Elizabeth Sayward, 1799-1883 (Embroiderer)
17 x 12 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.564
Probably Maine (United States)
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