A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK HISTORICAL SAMPLER

A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK HISTORICAL SAMPLER

BY HENRIETTA COTTLE

work in cross and eyelet stitch on a tammy ground, with alphabets, numerals and a quote from the 'Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith, above a list of English Kings and Queens, signed and dated 'Henrietta Cottle June 7 1833', with a ribbon outer border, in a later glazed gilt and ebonised frame

32.2 x 33.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, p.187 for a discussion of this sampler.