λ AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

λ AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

C.1840

worked with coloured silks with cross and satin stitch on a linen ground, with a country house, butterflies, angels, trees, cows, and sheep above a pair of stags, with birds in a tree and a huntsman in a red jacket with his hound dog, unsigned, in a glazed rosewood frame

42.5 x 31.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.10 for a discussion of this sampler.