AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY AGNES CARR

worked in cross stitch with a view of the church of St. Margaret of Antioch at High Bentham, depicting the gate and the path leading to the west door, flanked by urns of flowers, with a virtuous verse, signed and dated 'Agnes Carr....s Work donin 1840 St. Margreat Church...at Bentham..For Remembrance', in a later glazed oak cushion frame

29.5 x 36.9cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.64 for a discussion of this sampler.