AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY HANNAH RIPLEY

worked in coloured wools on a linen ground with a pouncing tiger with detailed whiskers, a pair of cats seated on taselled cushions, a dog, a pheasant or capercaillie and figures dancing, signed and dated 'Hannah Ripleys Work Aged 11 1846', in a glazed bird's eye maple frame

45.8 x 52cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.153 for a discussion of this sampler.