A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK PRIMITVE PICTORIAL SAMPLER

A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK PRIMITVE PICTORIAL SAMPLER

BY HANNAH MELLOR

worked a verse above a fashionably bonneted young girl holding a posy beneath a tree, with a church and two houses and a an undulating avenue of poplar trees within a gillyflower border, signed 'Hannah Mellor Aged 12. Feb. 15th 1830', in a later glazed moulded wood frame

37.7 x 39.7cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.29. for a discussion of this sampler.