A LARGE AND RARE NEEDLEWORK SHIP SAMPLER

A LARGE AND RARE NEEDLEWORK SHIP SAMPLER

BY DIENA COLE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

worked with coloured wools on a linen ground in cross and chain stitch with three ships, the largest with a man in the look-out, with a toast 'A health to the sick and honour to the brave, success to the lover and freedom to the slave', with pairs of houses, urns of flowers, dogs and Adam and Eve with the Tree of Knowledge, signed and dated 'Diena Cole aged 10'

52.8 x 53cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.175 for a discussion of this sampler.