λ A LARGE GEORGE IV FOLK ART NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER

λ A LARGE GEORGE IV FOLK ART NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER

BY ANN GREEN

worked with polychrome crewel wools and silks on an undyed linen ground with a house and colourful blooms, with a verse 'The Rose' and signed and dated 'Ann Greens Work Aged 8 years 1832', in a glazed rosewood frame

40.5 x 42cm

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.