Object Description
1801 Map Sampler by Elizabeth Colley. Framed in an old, possibly original, wood frame with painted black and gilt surround and rippled old glass. Fixed to a wood stretcher frame with wood and brown paper. The sampler is worked in fine silk on linen ground, in a variety of stitches. Meandering floral border. Colours black, cream, blue, copper, green and pink. Signed and dated ‘Eliz. Colley 1801’. Depicts a map of England and Wales with the counties, and surrounding seas.