AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY HUNT

worked with coloured wool on a coarse ground, with a virtuous verse titled 'Wisdom', with the Tree of Life flanked by two pairs of birds, signed and dated 'Mary Hunt Her Work Aged 6 yrs 1847', in a glazed mahogany frame

39.1 x 48.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p. 204 for a discussion on this sampler.