A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK NAVAL SAMPLER

A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK NAVAL SAMPLER

C.1815-20

worked with coloured silks on a line ground with alphabets and numerals above three sailing ships each titled 'Hope', 'Nelson' and 'Charlotte', with a verse 'Brave Henry tempts the dangerous sea' after Mrs Barbauld's 'Simple Stories in verse', above a country house, signed and dated 'Sophia Evans her work, Aged nine years', in a later glazed, gilt and ebonised frame

37.5 x 29cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.175 for a discussion of this sampler.