AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY RIDER

worked with wool on a linen ground depicting the crucifixion of Christ, with two British soldiers, with rabbits, urns of flowers and parrots perched on trees, with a verse and signed 'Mary Rider aged 9 years 1841', in a later glazed ebonised frame

37.5 x 38.2cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.259 for a discussion of this sampler.