A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY LOUISA GREEN

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground with cross and satin stitch, with a virtuous verse, with urns of flowers and crowns above a grand Elizabethan house with gabled ends the front with a parkland setting with various animals and trees, signed and dated 'Louisa Green's Work Finished October the 5th 1825, Born Nov. 26th Anno Domini 182.. Observer Prepare to meet they God', in a later glazed ebonised frame

41.5 x 31.6cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p. 17 for a discussion of this sampler.