A rectangular sampler depicting a small landscape with alphabets and religious verse worked in multicolored silk threads, including taupe, red, (now orange), pink (now white), blue (now pale blue), white, black, lime green (now very pale yellow), and several shades of yellow on a dark olive green linsey-woolsey ground. At the top of the sampler are three alphabets: 1st: 3/4' upper case script letters: 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO' and what appears to be a second 'I' rather than a 'P' worked in cross stitch 2nd: 1/2' upper case block letters: 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' worked in Algerian Eye 3rd: 3/4' upper case block letters: 'ABCDEFGJKLMNOP[QRS' worked in tent stitch. The center of the sampler contains a religious verse in 3/8' upper and lower case letters: 'Jesus permit thy gracious Name to stand/ As the first effort of an infants hand/ And while her fingers oer this canvas move/ Engage her tender heart to seek thy love/ With thy dear children let her share a part/ Aand (sic) write thy name thyself upon her heart'++ This verse is flanked by baskets of flowers worked in satin, knotted, stem, and cross stitch. A decorative border with blue-winged angels at beginning at end divides this section from the bottom which features a yellow two storey house with orange roof and a small barn beside which stands a birdhouse. A fence and three trees stand between the two buildings. Birds perch on the fence, in the treetops and atop the barn. The sampler is signed and dated at the bottom: 'Caroline Vaughan Aged 10 Worked at Mary Waldens School October 28, 1818'. The whole sampler is surrounded by a conventional undulating border with 8-pointed star-like flowers. The sampler is worked primarily in cross-stitch, but also features satin, knotted, stem, tent, Algerian eye, and couched stitches. The needlework was removed from its frame (not original and not contemporary to the piece) in 1996 and reframed in a modern veneered frame behind Denglass.