A QUEEN ANNE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A QUEEN ANNE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY SARAH ABBOTT

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground with verses from Isaac Watt's 'Hymns and Spiritual Songs', in a bold tulip, rose and carnation border and with a green satin edge, signed and dated 'Sarah Abbott 1705', in a later glazed frame

33.5 x 25.3cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, pp. 116-117. for a discussion of this sampler.