Auction: February 21, 2016

Lot #270: 1853 Needlework Sampler

Having a linen ground, wool threads and depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with "Ebenezer" embroidered on the house; the poem reads: "Jane Rees is my name, And with my needle I made the same, And by my sampler you may see, What care my mother took of me"; it appears that she was 9 years old in 1853 when she did this piece