A NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER

A NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground, with a view of a grand red brick house titled 'Back Front of Mansion and Trent Park London', with an enclosed fence, with flowers and two figures walking dogs, in a strawberry border, in a later glazed ebonised frame

25.2 x 33cm

Provenance

Mac Humble Antiques, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, 8th July 1994.

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.182 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

Trent House and Park was the home of Sir Richard Jebb, George III's favourite physician and in the early 20th century was owned by Sir Philip Sassoon and subsequently inherited by Sir Edward Sassoon, who entertained many notable guests at Trent House including Charlie Chaplin and Sir Winston Churchill.