A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SAMPLER

A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SAMPLER

BY MARY SALMON

worked with coloured silks on a coarse linen ground, with alphabetsm numerals, birds, roses, crowns and a lion, with half-medallions, signed and dated 'Mary Salmon Nantwich 1821', in a glazed bird's eye maple frame

29.2 x 29.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.290, for a discussion of this sampler.