A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER

A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY MARY WASDEN

worked with coloured floss silks using cross, eyelet and satin stitches on a linen ground, with alphabets, numerals above a virtuous verse, with a country house possibly Serlby Hall flanked by trees, birds and flowers, signed and dated 'Mary Wasden Harworth School 1836 Her work', in a later glazed bird's eye maple frame

32.5 x 32.3cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.58 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

Harworth Free School was first endowed by a cook. In 1700 Robert Brailsford, employed at nearby Serlby Hall, home to Viscount Galway, established the school initially for the education of poor boys.