Worked in wool and silk on loose weave ground depicting a young girl and her cat at play below a pious verse, with floral motif and with maker's name and date, "Mary Meadowcroft 1848" stitched to lower center, presented under glass in a period mahogany frame with gilt liner.

Frame size 32 x 31.5

Collection of a Lady, Raleigh, North Carolina

With some staining; with some discoloration; some dye run; with hole to lower left; not examined out-of-frame.