λ AN EARLY VICTORIAN FOLK ART NAIVE NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER

λ AN EARLY VICTORIAN FOLK ART NAIVE NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER

ANONYMOUS, C.1840-50

worked with coloured wools on a coarse linen ground, with possibly Little Bo Peep, a shepherd seated under a tree accompanied by his dog and with a flock of sheep, with a pair of urns of flowers, a butterfly and an inscription 'How grand in age, How fair in Youth, Is holy friendship, Love and truth', in a glazed rosewood frame

39 x 23cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.20 for a discussion of this sampler.