The Art of Gathering

Comprising a needlework sampler worked with multicolored threads on cotton or linen ground, depicting a Georgian red brick house surrounded by trees, floral urns and baskets, and birds, with large bird gripping grape cluster below, all surrounded by zig-zag border, inscribed and dated, "M...ack/ 1822," framed; a needlework sampler worked with multicolored threads on cotton or linen ground, featuring alphabet, pious verse, and various motifs: birds, squirrels, lions, crowns, trees, and flower baskets, surrounded by strawberry border, inscribed and dated, "Mary Appleby/ October the 28 1802 in the Year of my Age," matted and framed; a needlework sampler worked with multicolored threads on cotton or linen ground, featuring the Lord's Prayer and pious verse, surrounded by strawberry border, with lions to each corner and the lower edge depicting doves flanking a flower basket and each next to a tree, inscribed and dated, "Elizabeth Bence/ August 1st. 1820.," matted and framed; and a needlework sampler worked with multicolored threads on cotton or linen ground, featuring alphabet and pious verse, surrounded by zig-zag border interspersed with various motifs: trees, flowers, and flower baskets, matted and framed.

14 1/4 in. x 11 1/2 in. (house, sight), 16 3/4 in. x 11 1/4 in. (Mary Appleby, sight), 14 1/4 in. x 12 1/4 in. (Elizabeth Bence, sight), and 21 1/2 in. x 16 1/2 in. (faded, sight)