A LATE VICTORIAN BRISTOL ORPHANAGE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A LATE VICTORIAN BRISTOL ORPHANAGE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

ANONYMOUS, C.1880

worked in typical red cotton cross-stitch on a linen ground, with alphabets and numerals, in various fonts, with five sets of initials at the end of one alphabet line 'EV.AV.ALS.FMB.HS', with leaf, flower and grapevine patterns, crowns, anchors, a ship, a house and the Bible, and an inscription 'The tidings of salvation dear comes to our ears from hence', with a forget-me-not and gillyflower signature cartouche, with initials 'AW.', in a later glazed ebonised frame

38.4 x 29.2cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.78 for a discussion of this sampler.