A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK DARNING SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK DARNING SAMPLER

BY SOPHIA DOGGETT, C.1796

worked in polychrome silks in long and short stitch on a linen ground, with nine damask darning patterns demonstrating a unique weaving pattern, with free-hand sprigs of flowers, signed 'Sophia Doggett Aged Seven Years', in a later glazed bird's eye maple frame

42 x 40cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.68 for a discussion of this sampler.