A LARGE EARLY VICTORIAN BERLIN WOOLWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER

A LARGE EARLY VICTORIAN BERLIN WOOLWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER

BY ELIZABETH HARBY

worked with polychrome thread on a linen ground with two young girls in a garden setting with a lush cabbage-rose border, signed and dated 'Elizabeth Harby Aged 15 December 16th Anno Domini 1842, Derby' in a Gothic script, in a glazed ebonised frame

49.5 x 47.7cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.159 for a discussion of this sampler.