A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY FANNY COPPARD

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground, with short aphorisms and meandering flower borders, with a central vase of flowers flanked by a pair of dogs, lions on plinths and stags, signed and dated 'Fanny Coppard 1795 Aged 10 Years', in a glazed ebonised frame

34.1 x 30.6cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.269 for a discussion of this sampler.