A fine needlework sampler: The star-spangled banner, Margaret Emily Lukens, Warren County, Ohio, March the 6th 1855

in brilliantly-colored silk stitches on a linen ground; the alphabet bands above the lyrics to the Star-Spangled Banner, below an urn filled with flowers and trailing vines, over all a spread-wing American eagle with a banner inscribed LIBERTY; the whole trimmed in old green satin ribbon. In the original glass frame.