Description A group of four English needlework samplers early 19th centuryComprising a needlework sampler worked with multicolored threads on cotton or linen ground, depicting a Georgian red brick house surrounded by trees, floral urns and baskets, and birds, with large bird gripping grape cluster below, all surrounded by zig-zag border, inscribed and dated, "M...ack/ 1822," framed; a needlework sampler worked with multicolored threads on cotton or linen ground, featuring alphabet, pious verse, and various motifs: birds, squirrels, lions, crowns, trees, and flower baskets, surrounded by strawberry border, inscribed and dated, "Mary Appleby/ October the 28 1802 in the Year of my Age," matted and framed; a needlework sampler worked with multicolored threads on cotton or linen ground, featuring the Lord`s Prayer and pious verse, surrounded by strawberry border, with lions to each corner and the lower edge depicting doves flanking a flower basket and each next to a tree, inscribed and dated, "Elizabeth Bence/ August 1st. 1820.," matted and framed; and a needlework sampler worked with multicolored threads on cotton or linen ground, featuring alphabet and pious verse, surrounded by zig-zag border interspersed with various motifs: trees, flowers, and flower baskets, matted and framed.(14 1/4 in. x 11 1/2 in. (house, sight), 16 3/4 in. x 11 1/4 in. (Mary Appleby, sight), 14 1/4 in. x 12 1/4 in. (Elizabeth Bence, sight), and 21 1/2 in. x 16 1/2 in. (faded, sight))ProvenanceA private New England collector.Note Three of these needlework samplers bear framing labels verso from E. Wollen & Co. in Cape Town, South Africa. While these most recently were in the collection of a private New England collector, they evidently were inherited or purchased from a collector in South Africa.