EARLY 19TH CENTURY LINEN & WOOL RED HOUSE SAMPLER BY MARY CLARK 1838

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Early 19th century linen, wool and silk work red house sampler by Mary Clark 1838. This sampler is just stunning, decorated with some truly wonderful stitcheork. The top section is dedicated to a verse which goes as follows ON DEATH Like crowded forest-trees we stand and some are marked to fall. The axe will smite at God's command and soon shall smite us all. Green as the bay tree, ever green, with its new foliage on, the gay, the thoughtless, have I seen-I passed-and they were gone Mary Clark Caldy. March 28th 1838 Above the verse is a cherub's face and there is a garland over the top with two wonderful tassels on either side worked in cream silk. Beneath the verse is a marvellous farm scene - a red house with blossoming trees on either side, brick walls, a paved path in front and a picket fence to the side. Sheep, also worked in silk, are grazing in the fields, some lying by a pathway where a plough lies idle, others taking shade beneath the most superb stump work tree, (this is raised a good quarter of an inch from the linen) The whole thing is surrounded by an elaborate honeysuckle border. The linen has very slight discolouration, slightly darker around the tree, and the colours of the wool and silk are excellent. As can be seen on the photographs there are small areas where the sampler has been professionally repaired, the read more

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