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A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
by Lucy Ivett, 1836, worked in coloured silks with bands of alphabets and numerals above rows of trees and flowering plants, enclosing the verse VIRTUE'S THE CHIEFEST BEAUTY OF THE MIND / THE NOBLEST ORNAMENT OF HUMAN KIND / VIRTUE'S OUR SAFEGUARD AND OUR GUIDING STAR / THAT STIRS UP REASON WHEN OUR SENSES ERR, over a band of birds and flowering branches centred by a cartouche inscribed LUCY IVETT AGED 14 YEARS 1836, within a meandering floral border, framed and glazed. Frame 57.8cm by 65.2cm, VIRTUE'S THE CHIEFEST BEAUTY OF THE MIND / THE NOBLEST ORNAMENT OF HUMAN KIND / VIRTUE'S OUR SAFEGUARD AND OUR GUIDING STAR / THAT STIRS UP REASON WHEN OUR SENSES ERR, LUCY IVETT AGED 14 YEARS 1836
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