Sampler, Barbara Hunter, Medium: wool embroidery, linen foundation Technique: embroidered, Ornamental motifs including animals, ships, trees, Garden of Eden., Inscription: Barbara Hunter is my name and with my needle I have done the same, and by this work you may see what care my parents have taken of me Aged 10 in the year of Our Lord 1817 Wrought at Margery Fothergill's School at Percy Main Collery., Verse: Pass a few swiftly fleeting year and all that now in bodies live shall quit like me the vale of tears Thou lord hath led thy people through the deep

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