A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY SARAH STEPHENSON

worked in red floss silk on a linen ground in cross and eyelet stitch with bands of alphabets and numerals, with a verse titiled 'Chairty' flanked by Greek key designs, signed and dated 'Sarah Stephenson Decr 1825', in a later glazed ebonised frame

28 x 33.3cm

Provenance

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