AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ISABELLA LAMB

worked with coloured silks and chenille on a fine gauze ground, with a scene of a cottage with a thatched dovecote, a tree and gate, with a verse, in a free-hand floral and lattice border, signed and dated 'Isabella Lamb Kendal Aged 10 1840', in a glazed mahogany frame

35.4 x 43.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p. 20 for a discussion of this sampler.