A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER

A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY NANCY STEAD

worked with Ackworth style medallions with flowers and geometric designs, two inscribed 'A gift for my friend' and 'A token of love', signed and dated 'Nancy Stead Wigton School 1822', in a later glazed ebonised frame

42.5 x 41.5cm

Provenance

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

Catalogue Note

Wigton is in Cumbria, the school was opened by the Society of Friends in 1815, initially with nine boys and eight girlsm the buildings were leased at an annual rent of 27 guineas.