λ A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

λ A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MIRIAM SARAH SUSANNAH CHAPMAN

worked with polychrome silks on a fine linen ground, with petit point stitches, with a wavy rose vine border, the centre panel depicting a building with a banner 'Ladies' Establishment', with a woman and a man with his dog to the sides, each holding a shepherd's crook, with a windmill in the background, in the front a flock of sheep and girls exercising with their skipping rope, the top with a verse flanked by baskets of flowers and strawberries, deer and flowers, the bottom panel with a crown between birds perched on a branch with berries, signed and dated 'Miriam Sarah Susannah Chapman aged 8 years May 11 1837', in a rosewood and gilt frame

42.2 x 32.2cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.186 for a discussion of this sampler.