A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY ANN WOOD

worked in coloured silks on a linen ground, with a virtuous verse above a scene of a dog chasing a deer, with urns of flowers, birds and a tree, with a strawberry signature cartouche, inscribed 'Maryann Wooderher Work aged 12 Years finished 1803', with an arcaded floral border with honey-suckle, martagon, lily, bunches of grapes and carnations, in a glazed mahogany frame with applied brass rondels

40.8 x 32.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.104 for a discussion of this sampler.