American Sampler Dated 1813 Wrought by Elizabeth Acres, silk and linen “Flee Sloth”; worked in silk stitches on a linen ground with alphabets and exhoratative quatrain above a depiction of a house flanked by pairs of columnar trees, all within a flowering vine meander border, stylized birds, insects and blossoms; inscribed across lower edge: “Elizabeth / 1813 / Acres”, bird’s eye maple frame, gilt liner

15.5 in. x 12.5 in. Framed 19.75 in. x 16 in.