Physical description

This is typical of samplers done in England and Europe about 1800, with alphabet and numbers at the top. Then "Ann Crow her work - Aged 11 years Dec the 24th 1800". Then a poem "Virtue", then a number of spot designs of animals and plants. Border of strawberries surrounds part of it.

Inscriptions & markings

Ann Crow her work - Aged 11 years Dec 24 1800
"Virtue
Virtue's the chiefest Beauty of the Mind,
The noblest Ornament of Human-kind;
Virtue's our Safeguard and our guiding Star,
That stirs up Reason when our Senses err."