A SMALL AND RARE GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK QUAKER ACKWORTH SCHOOL SAMPLER

A SMALL AND RARE GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK QUAKER ACKWORTH SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY MARGARET BINYON

worked with polychrome silks on a tammy ground in cross stitch, with medallions, birds, urns of flowers and a squirrel in a treem with a virtuous verse, signed and dated 'Margaret Binyon 1789', in a later glazed ebonised frame

15.1 x 21.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.32 for a discussion of this sampler.

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