AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY MARTHA ELFORD OF DOWNSIDE SCHOOL

worked with a virtuous verse, with flowers and baskets of fruit, with a heart shaped cartouche inscribed 'Martha Elford, Her Work, Downside School 1845', in a glazed bird's eye maple frame

31.7 x 24.7cm

Provenance

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

Catalogue Note

Downside School is a Catholic Independent boarding school located in Somerset.