A VICTORIAN FOLK ART WOOLWORK SAMPLER

A VICTORIAN FOLK ART WOOLWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY GREEN

worked with crewel work with polychrome wools on a canvas ground, with various stitches, including: cross, petit point and tent, with alphabets, numbers and lovehearts, above a verse 'Compassion' from William Shenstone's 'Pastoral Ballad', above a whitewashed house flanked by rambling flowers, signed and dated 'Mary Green's work aged 6 years 1884', in a later glazed ebonised frame

37.7 x 31.6cm

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.