Hannah Halsey's 1808 Embroidered Schoolgirl Sampler

Likely Long Island, New York, silk on linen, worked in eyelet and cross-stitch, with alphabets to upper register, pious verses, and unfinished motifs to lower panel, signed "Hannah Halsey's Sampler Marked in the Sixteenth / Year of her age...," framed.

framed dimensions 15 1/4 x 19 1/2 in.

From the Collection of a Lady, Williamsburg, Virginia

Some fading and discoloration; small stains; scuffs to frame; not examined out of frame.