Object Description
1810, ‘The Vanity of Wealth’, verse sampler by Caroline Lawrence. Framed in an old wood frame with gilt slip and glass. Mounted to conservator standards on acid free card with board backing. The sampler is worked in silk on linen ground, in cross stitch throughout. Meandering strawberry border. Colours greens, white, browns and pink. Verse entitled, ‘THE VANITY OF WEALTH’, reads ‘NO more thus brooding o’er yon heap,>With av’rice painful vigils Keep;>Still unenjoy’d the present store.>Still endlefs sighs are breath’d for More,>Oh quit the shadow, Catch the prize,>Which not all India’s treasure buys;>To purchas heaven has Gold the Power;>Can gold remove the mortal Hour;>In life can Love be bought with Gold;>Are Friendship’s pleasures to be Sold;>No, all that’s worth a wish, a Thought,>Fair virtue Gives unbrib’d, unbought.>Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind;>Let nobler views engage thy Mind.’. Signed and dated ‘Caroline Lawrence 1810’. A scattering of motifs, including flowers, birds and a shield