A RARE EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER

A RARE EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY MARY BIRCHALL

worked with red silk in cross stitch on a linen ground with alphabets and numerals, signed and dated 'Mary Birchall, Sidcot. 1838.', in a later glazed wood frame

17.2 x 32cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.38 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

Sidcot School was founded by the Society of Friends at Winscombe in Somerset in 1808. Mary Birchall was born in 1824 in Swansea, her father Thomas was a grocer and her mother, Elizabeth Bath, had been a scholar at Sicot in 1808.