A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK ASYLUM SAMPLER

A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK ASYLUM SAMPLER

BY ANN TANDY HALL

worked with blue silk on a linen ground, with cross stitch, with alphabets and various inscriptions: 'Lord of Lords', 'King of Kings', with floral sprays, signed and dated 'Royal Asylum of the St. Ann's Society, Brixton Hill, Ann Tandy Hall, Aged 14 Years, 29th december One Thousand Eight Hundred & Fifty Four', in a later glazed ebonised frame

42.4 x 33.9cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.52 for a discussion of this sampler.