Perfect 1865 Needlepoint Sampler
Exceptional condition
Perfect 1865 needlepoint sampler by one Jenney Ledger, who at 9 years old rendered this morbid moral chestnut in fantastic colors. The message itself (which I tend to think is true, but I’m from Massachusetts) comes from Isaac Watts’s Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children, which was first published in 1715 and would remain a popular textbook for schoolchildren through the beginning of the twentieth century. The final slide features the full poem excerpted in the sampler in an 1800 edition of Watts’s text. This work is in miraculous, exceptional condition; vivid as a 🌹