AN EARLY GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

AN EARLY GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY SARAH FREEMAN, ATTRIBUTED TO THE NORWICH SCHOOLS

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground, with alphabets, numerals, a verse, lions, topiary trees and octagons filled with urns of flowers, flanked by free-hand crewel work urns of scrolling flowers, signed and dated 'Sarah Freeman 1762', in a late glazed wood frame

31 x 24cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.110 for a discussion of this sampler.