AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK QUAKER ACKWORTH SCHOOL SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK QUAKER ACKWORTH SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY ELIZABETH ANNA FOLLOWS

worked with blue silk in cross stitch on a linen ground with alphabets and numerals, signed and dated 'Elizabeth Anna Follows, Warrington 1854', in a glazed ebonised wood frame

19 x 18.8cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.42 for a discussion of this sampler

Catalogue Note

Elizabeth Follows was born in Aston near Birmingham but by 1851, Elizabeth aged 9 was living in Warrington with her widowed mother. Elizabeth attended Ackworth School from 1853-1857, after which she remained an apprentice in the school until 1863.