A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

ANONYMOUS C.1740

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground with cross, satin, stem and eyelet stitch with alphabets, numerals, two verses and geometric bands, signed with initials 'MM Age 8', in a later glazed ebonised frame

47 x 22.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.190 for a discussion of this sampler.