A LATE 18TH CENTURY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A LATE 18TH CENTURY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ELIZA C. SHALLCROSS, POSSIBLY AMERICAN

worked with long and short stitches in satin, with exotic birds and a butterfly flanking a verse from the poem 'To a Redbreast' by Reverend John Langhorne, with a meandering floral border and a house in colonial American style, inscribed 'Mount Pleasant' and signed and dated 'Eliza C. Shallcross Aged Ten, 1799', in a later glazed and ebonised frame

34.5 x 41cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, p.154 for a discussion of this sampler.