A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ELIZABETH EAST

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground with cross, satin and split stitches, with alphabets, numerals and a moralistic verse, with an elegantly dressed lady with her dog, the faces and details from engravings, with a floral border with gillyflowers and hurtsickle, the corners with budding stems signed and dated 'Elizabeth East 1801', in a later glazed Hogarth type frame

37.5 x 34cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.208 for a discussion of this sampler.