λ AN EARLY VICTORIAN NAIVE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

λ AN EARLY VICTORIAN NAIVE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY RICHARDSON

worked with crewel wool, on a course linen ground, depicting a Gothic castle, with a pair of trees, roses and a virtuous verse, in a floral border, signed and dated 'Mary Richardson Her work 1847', in a glazed rosewood frame

34.7 x 40.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.26 for a discussion of this sampler.