A Needlework Sampler, Ann Smith, Liverpool, Ohio, Dated 1845

Worked in silk stitches on a linen ground; at the corner a large fruit still-life, below a white house within a fence, a beehive and lion above, below a decoupage young lady leaning on a monument, the whole within a luxuriant floral border with cornucopia, butterflies and birds.  At left the inscription: Ann Smith is my Name Ohio is my Station Liverpool my dwelling place And Christ is my Salvation and signed Hester Ann 1845.

Descended in the family of the stitcher to the present owner

Darkened linen; some fading silk.
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