An early Victorian needlework sampler

An early Victorian needlework sampler, by Elizabeth Surges, aged 12, 1839, with a central scene of a lady with a soldier in a woodland setting with a stag, flanked by a pair of urns with flowers, a verse and an outer floral zig-zag border, 17.25 x 17.25in (43.8 x 43.8cm), in a glazed bird's eye maple frame.