ROYAL NAVY INTEREST. A NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

ROYAL NAVY INTEREST. A NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY LIEUTENANT JOHN HIATT

worked with polychrome silks on canvas, mainly in Rococo stitch, with a trellis design decorated with stylised flowers and animals, crowns and a bird, above a cream coloured band, with the name and date upside down 'Lieutenant John Hiatt Royal Navy 1807', together with another sampler by his wife Ann Fishley, also worked with Rococo stitch and with similar colours, with stylised flowers and a bird, above a brightly coloured tulip and a band in petit point with the name and date 'Ann Fishley October 1803', both in later glazed ebonised frames (2)

24.4 x 16.7cm (max)

Provenance

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

Catalogue Note

Lieutenant John Hiatt served on board of the HMS Namur at the defeat of the Spanish fleet off Cape St Vincent during the Peninsula War in 1797 when he was just 13 years old. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1802 for his general services. In 2008 a St Vincent medal belonging to Midshipman John Hiatt was auctioned in London.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.142 for a discussion of these samplers.