A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK ANTI-SLAVERY SAMPLER

A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK ANTI-SLAVERY SAMPLER

BY M. A. ROBINS

worked with black silk floss on a linen ground, in cross stitch, with three extracts, the first one describing the sad plight of a negro woman, signed and dated 'M. A. Robins Birmingham, Octr 24 1831', in a later glazed ebonised frame

36.5 x 34.2cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.172 for a discussion of this sampler.