Ann Greenfield

This sampler has an unusual lyrical personality that we find very appealing. It presents a delightful composition of flowers, foliage, birds and butterflies that are intertwined with a striped ribbon that wends its way throughout, creating bowknots as it twists and turns. 

The verse was published in 1760 in London, in a book entitled A New Guide to the English Tongue in Five Parts by Thomas Dilworth, Author of the Schoolmasters Assistant. 

An unusual four-sided border, composed of chain-stitched links with delicate thorns, frames the sampler well. The needlework is particularly refined throughout. 

Worked in silk on wool, the sampler is in excellent condition with some very slight darkening nearby some of the lettering. It has been conservation mounted and is in a molded and black painted frame.