λ A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

λ A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARIA TURNER

worked with polychrome silks on a fine gauze, with various techniques and stitches including: cross, satin, long and short, split, stem, tent, Maltese cross and rice stitch, with alphabets and numerals above a verse ascribed to 'Mr R. Balwants', above a basket of flowers and a lion with house next to a church, to the left a tree worked with couched chenille bearing the thirteen qualities, on a chevron mound, in a free-hand floral border, signed and dated 'Maria Turner's Work Anno Domini 1824', in a glazed rosewood frame

39.6 x 33cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.6 for a discussion of this sampler.