A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ELIZABETH DEVENPORT

worked with polychrome silks on a linen ground, with various stitches including: satin, long, short, cross and eyelet, with alphabets, numerals, crowns, with a virtuous verse, with a flame stitch panel within a bold free-hand floral border with moss rosebuds, pale lilies and blue convolvulus, signed and dated 'Elizabeth Devenport', in a later glazed giltwood frame

39.4 x 30cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.115 for a discussion of this sampler.