A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK QUAKER ACKWORTH SAMPLER

A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK QUAKER ACKWORTH SAMPLER

BY EMMA TOPHAM

worked with coloured silks in cross stitch on a linen ground with alphabets, numerals, a half-medallion with a tulip, birds, flowers a wreath inscribed 'God is Love', a tree and a dovecote, signed and dated 'Emma Topham Ackworth 1837', in a later glazed ebonised frame

32.5 x 26.7cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p. 32 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

Emma Topham worked two known samplers, both are inscribed Ackworth and dated 1837. One is at Ackworth school and the present lot is the other. Although Emma's sampler references Ackworth School motifs, she was not in fact a scholar at Ackworth.