A Fine Silk on Linen Needlepoint Sampler Clarissa Hastings Batcheller (1797-1824), Warwick, Massachusetts, c. 1810 Fine plain-woven ground worked predominantly in cross-stitch with openwork details and satin-stitched serrated borders, depicting a mansion house flanked by potted flowers, fruit, and pine trees, on a lawn populated by two ladies, a dog, and several birds, including one owl, the verse inscription reading 'O may my mind taste sweet refin'd / Engageing still more rich employ'd / Nor be entic'd to follow vice / But feast its powers on higher joys.' below signature, float-mounted under conservation glass, panel 17 x 17 in. Footnotes: Note Clarissa Hastings, daughter of Isaac and Sarah Goddard Hastings, was born 27 August 1797. She died in 1824, one year after her marriage to Adams Batcheller of Upton, Massachusetts. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing