Sampler, Charlotte Payne Lloyd, Medium: silk on wool Technique: cross, satin, stem and chain stitches on plain weave foundation, Divided into three horizontal bands. At the top a woman in an Empire dress holding a flower stands between flowering plants, birds and animals. At the center a symmetrical arrangement of plants and birds. At the bottom the following verse and signature: 'Learn to contemn all praise betimes/ For flatt'ry is the nurse of crimes/ With early virtue plant thy breast/ The specious arts of vice detest/ Charlotte Payne Lloyd/ Aged 13 years June 29 1819.', England, 1819

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