A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY SARAH CHITTLEBURGH, IN NORWICH SCHOOL STYLE

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground with alphabets, numerals, strawberries, a pair of deer, lions baskets of fruit and birds, signed and dated 'Sarah Chittleburgh Aged 12 Years 1819', in a glazed oak frame

25.1 x 20cm

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.