AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY SARAH PUGMIRE

worked with coloured wools on a coarse linen ground, with two names 'Jonathan Pugmire, Sarah Pugmire' with family initials, above a virtuous verse and a depiction of St. Cuthbert's Church, with a Celtic cross, with flowers and birds, signed and dated 'Sarah Pugmire her Work Finished in the Year of her ....Musgrave School in the Year 1847' in a glazed simulated wood frame

51 x 47.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.65 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

Lady Musgrave's School was opened in 1833 and was supported in part by the Dowager Lady Musgrave. According to the 1851 Census Sarah Pugmire was still living with her parents and working as a dress-maker.