AN EARLY VICTORIAN WELSH NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN WELSH NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ELIZABETH ELLIS

worked in coloured silks and wools on a linen ground with a view of Wrexham church, with birds, bats, a house, trees, flowers and stars, signed 'Elizabeth Ellis Her Work September 1 1840 Aged 13', in a later glazed ebonised frame

41.2 x 42.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.174.