A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER

A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY ELIZA MANSER

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground wit alphabets, symbols, initialled crowns for King, Queen, Prince, Duke, Earl...., a birds, Italianate villas, a man holding a hat and signed and dated 'Eliza Manser, Dover Charity School 1865', in a later glazed ebonised frame

32.4 x 30cm

Provenance

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

Catalogue Note

The Dover Charity School was founded in 1789 in Queen Street, Dover.