A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ELIZABETH SIRET

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground in cross and four-sided stitch, with alphabets, numerals, a verse and with crowns, with a strawberry border, signed and dated 'Elizabeth Siret My 6th 1833', in a later glazed ebonised frame

27.9 x 28.2cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.90 for a discussion of this sampler.