A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK QUAKER ACKWORTH SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK QUAKER ACKWORTH SAMPLER

BY ALICE STEAD

worked with black floss silk on a linen ground in cross stitch with an extract from John 4th Chapter, 10th verse, 'At Jacobs Well a Stranger Sought', signed and dated 'Alice Stead Ackworth School 1790', in a later glazed elm frame

33.2 x 27cm

Provenance

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