A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER

A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER

DATED '1849'

worked with polychrome silk floss on a linen ground with cross stitch, with the names of nine school class mates from Margaretting School, dedicated to 'Miss M Jesse from her first class', in a later glazed ebonised frame

20.9 x 33.3cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.62 for a discussion of this sampler.