175x181 - From Noteworthy Needle comes this reproduction sampler from 1819 that has the verse "Teach me to feel anothers woe, To hide the faults I see, The Marcy I to other show, That marcy show to me" in the center with lions at a tree on each side, 3 little pink stitches appear on one of the lions legs to give the impression it was injured, at the top are rows of alphabet letters separated by bands of patterns, under is another section with alphabet letters, a section of octagon blocks with the center block where the stitcher personalized and the outer blocks are filled with flowers, and at the very bottom are two bands one with florals and the other a pattern - D
Stitched on 40 Ct. Buttercream Linen from Lakeside Linen
Note: This is not a misspelling of the word mercy - it was actually changed years later when the Oxford English diction standardized spellings and attempted to make then match their roots
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