A LARGE EARLY VICTORIAN BERLIN WOOLWORK SAMPLER

A LARGE EARLY VICTORIAN BERLIN WOOLWORK SAMPLER

BY ANN UNDERWOOD

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground, with various techniques and stitches, with baskets of fruit, a view of a house and a church, a peacock, urns of flowers and with a central Italian lady in national costume beside a folly tower, signed and dated 'Ann Underwood Her Work Finished Febru.. The 17 1846 Aged 11 Years', in a glazed goncalo alves frame

53 x 44cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.157 for a discussion of this sampler.