A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK DECALOGUE SAMPLER

A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK DECALOGUE SAMPLER

BY ELIZABETH HILL

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground with cross and chain stitch with two tablets 'Exodus Chapter The XX' with the ten commandments, with polychrome floral tendrils and geometric borders, signed and dated 'Elizabeth Hill Aged 12 Years November the 7 1742', in a later bird's eye maple glazed frame

31.9 x 24.9cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p. 264 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

Elizabeth Hill was an Aunt of Sir Rowland Hill who started the Penny-Post. She was a relation of Elizabeth Hill of the Ho, Kidderminster.