A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER

BY SARAH RUSKIN

worked with polychrome silks on fine canvas, worked in various stitches, including: long, short, cross and petit point, the central panel with a country scene of a shepherd, his face applied engraving, holding a shepherd's crook amongst his sheep on a field, in front of a house and a windmill under white clouds, the top section with three wise sayings flanking two woodpeckers perched on a branch and holding a banner in their beaks, inscribed 'Sarah Ruskin' and the date '1802' in a ribbon, within a zigzag border issuing husks, roses and tulips, in a verre eglomise glazed and beaded gilt frame

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Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.15 for a discussion of this sampler.