SARAH CARNABEY 1766

This is an exquisitely stitched English sampler worked with brightly colored silk threads on fine linen in a variety of stitches, including cross, eyelet, petit point, and back/double running.  A four-sided floral border surrounds two rows of cross-stitched alphabets and one row of eyelet-stitched numerals.  The verse is:

O may I always ready stand

With my Lamp burning in my Hand

May I in Sight of Heav’n rejoice

When’er I hear the Bridegroom’s Voice!

 Sarah Carnabey Finish’d this Samplar September ye 13 1766: Aged 10 years

The color is excellent, unfaded, except perhaps for the verse.  There are scattered small holes to the ground.  It is framed in a modern bird’s eye maple frame which is in excellent condition.

Sampler alone: 10-1/4″ x 12-1/4″

Framed sampler: 18-1/2″ x 20-1/2″