A print of a numbered 9,254/96,713 needlepoint sampler as housed within the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom; this sampler was originally crafted c.1824 by Elizabeth Wade.
 
At the top there is a verse which reads ' Virtue's the chiefest beauty of the mind, /the noblest ornament of human kind; /Virtue's our safeguard and our guiding star, / that stirs up reason when our senses err'. Beneath a horizontal floral border pattern is a balanced arrangement of detached flower and bird motifs on either side of a floral spray, a vase of flowers and a panel formed by branches with two perching birds enclosing the inscription 'Elizabeth/Wade/aged thirteen yrs/1824'. 
 
Woollen bordered sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, satin, tent and buttonhole stitch. There is a double blue line selvedge down both sides; the top and bottom are hemmed. A repeating floral border pattern surrounds the main body of the sampler.
 
Piece is framed with a small chip, bottom left corner, as photographed.
Measures approximately 21" x 16.5 overall.