Sampler, Sarah Goundrey, English, Medium: silk embroidery on wool foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, satin, stem, eyelet, and four sided stitches on plain weave foundation, Within a curving floral border, four alphabets and a text: 'Fragrant the rose but it fades in time/ The violet sweet but quick past the prime/ While lillies hand their heads and soon decay/ And whiter snow in minutes melts away/ Such and so withering are our earthly joys/ Which Time or Sickness speedily destroy' then a scene of a house in a landscape and a signature., England, 1809, embroidery & stitching, Sampler
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