A LATE REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A LATE REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ANNA GODDARD

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground with an exotic bird perched in a tree, with urns of flowers and baskets of flowers, butterflies and birds above a horse and rider, led by a hatted black groom and a shepherd with his flock and a windmill, signed and dated 'Anna Goddard finished this work in the 11th Year of her age 1819', in a later glazed oak frame

38.8 x 29.2cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.105 for a discussion of this sampler.