A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY JANE PARKIN

worked with coloured wools on a coarse linen ground, with an alphabet, numerals and with initials, possibly for family members in Scottish style, above a virtuous verse and Adam and Eve with the Tree of Knowledge, with onlooking birds, animals, sun and moon and butterflies, signed and dated 'Jane Parkin Aged 14 Years 1822 Redworth', in a later glazed ebonised frame

40.9 x 41.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.133 for a discussion of this sampler.