A GEORGE III IRISH NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER

A GEORGE III IRISH NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY ELEANOR NOBLE

worked with black and green silk on a linen ground in cross stitch with Addison's hymn 'when all thy mercies, O my god', within a leafy border, signed and dated 'Eleanor Noble Mountmelick Boarding School Anno 1797', in a later gilt and ebonised frame

34.8 x 30cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.46 for a discussion of this sampler.