A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ANN ORR SHERWOOD, IN NORWICH SCHOOL STYLE

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground in chain and stem stitches with a pair of flowers, a stag, a virtuouse verse, urns a peacock and birds in trees, in a free-hand floral border and unusual geometric lozenge spandrels, signed and dated 'Ann Orr Sherwood Aged 12 Years Mansfield 1812', in a later glazed Hogarth type frame

30.8 x 32cm

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.112 for a discussion of this sampler.