Needlework Sampler Worked by Clarissa Dodge of Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, Dated 1814, worked in silk on linen, inscribed recto, silk thread alphabets / How blest the maid whom years improve / Her God the object of her love / Whose hours successive as they glide / The needle book and pen divide / Wrought by Clarissa / Dodge in the 12th year of her / age Beverly Sept 1814.
Overall 16 ½ in. x 16 in.