AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ELIZABETH SARAH WHEELER

worked with various stitches, including: satin and cross stitch with polychrome silk floss, with a pair of pillared tablets of the Ten Commandments flanking a central gilt urn of flowers, the corners with Berlin woolwork motifs, including a temple, a house in a parkland setting and a small boy riding a mastiff, signed and dated 'Elizabeth Sara Wheeler Aged 12 Years 1848', in a glazed bird's eye maple frame

47 x 49cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.7 for a discussion of this sampler.