This sampler, neatly worked in coloured silks on a wool fabric, is helpfully signed across the bottom ‘Lucy Fripp Berkeley Square Bristol March the 15 1830 Aged ..’ As often happens, the maker has unpicked her age at a later date so as not to give it away.  However, census records show that Lucy was born c.1823 and would herefore have been 7 or 8 when she worked her sampler.  The 1830 Street Directory for Bristol lists Lucy’s father, Daniel Fripp, Esq at 30 Berkeley Square.
The verse is from a poem ‘To Childhood’ by John Scott of Amwell, first published in 1782.

This sampler is kept in the Georgian House and is available to be seen on request.

The cost of £395 in acquiring it was met in full by The Friends