A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ANN MIDDLETON

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground with a band of text 'If all Mankind woldhve in mutual love, This World would much resemble that above', with Solomon's temple flanked by birds in trees and with two uniformed soldiers promenading with well dressed ladies, with a further verse above a huntsman on horseback with a dog chasing a deer, signed and dated 'Ann Middleton Aged 10 1799', in a later glazed bird's eye maple frame

41.3 x 28.7cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, pp.210-211 for a discussion of this sampler.