- Titles Sampler (Descriptive)
- Artist Mary Carleton, American, born Canada 1802 - died Athens, Georgia 1883
- Medium linen and cotton thread
- Dimensions 13 1/2 × 10 in. (34.3 × 25.4 cm)
- Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.1146
- Work Type sampler
- Classification Needlework
- Signature Signed in thread Mary Carleton.
- Marks None
- Inscription At the bottom of the sampler embroidered, "Now I am young and in my prime I must improve this present time Tis only this I call my own All future time is yet unknown"
- Provenance Mary Carleton(Carlton), 1802-1883 (m. 1827 Thomas Bishop), Vermont; by descent to her great-great granddaughter Helen Milner Benedict Byrd (1920-1992), Birmingham, Alabama; by gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1986