A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK 'MOURNING' SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK 'MOURNING' SAMPLER

ANONYMOUS

worked with red floss on a cotton ground in cross stitch with a verse titled 'On The Death Of An Infant', an ode to George an infant recently departed, in a later glazed ebonised frame

17.2 x 14.9cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.180 for a discussion of this sampler.