Fleet, Mary Ann

1820 Mary Ann Fleet sampler

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Fragment of a text sampler. It originally had a border around three sides that has been removed. What remains are three stanzas from a song exhorting young ladies not to rely on their good looks. The song is number 118 shown in a book from 1785, The Humming Bird, available in archive.org, https://archive.org/details/hummingbirdacol00birdgoog/page/n316/mode/2up The sampler text uses an f instead of the long s. The printed text shows the letters are very slightly different.

Images donated by ebay seller cockleheart, edited by Sytske Wijnsma

F-CO004

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MB03C

Sampler

Embroidery

Cross-stitch

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