A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY CAROLINE WILKINSON

worked with coloured silks on a fine linen ground, in cross stitch, with a virtuous verse above baskets of flowers, urns of flowers and birds, with a Georgian red-brick house with a dovecote, signed and dated 'Caroline Wilkinson Her Work 1818', in a glazed bird's eye maple frame

43 x 32.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.28 for a discussion of this sampler.