Sampler, Mary Mitchell, Medium: silk, linen, and cotton embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in back, long aremed cross, cross, eyelet, satin stitches and cutwork with needlemade fillings on plain weave foundation, Bands of pattern in polychrome. In middle two alphabets and numbers. At bottom verse, 'This work in hand my friends may have when I am dead and laid in grave Mary Mitchel made this sampler in the fifteenth year of my age in the year 1729.', England, possibly Scotland, 1729, embroidery & stitching, Sampler

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