A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY LAKE

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground with Adam and Eve and an extract from Genesis. III. V. I3, with trees, lions, birds, flowers and a shepherd and shepherdess, signed and dated 'Mary Lake Aged 8 years March 1st 1826', in a glazed giltwood frame

38 x 31.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.242 for a discussion of this sampler.