A RARE WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER BY A BOY

A RARE WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER BY A BOY

BY HARTLEY JACKSON STEPHENSON

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground, with a large mastiff and a stag, with birds, urns of flowers and a basket of fruit, with a part alphabet, signed and dated 'Hartley Jackson Stephenson 1833 Aged 11 years', in a glazed bird's eye maple frame

42.5 x 32cm

Provenance

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

Catalogue Note

Hartley Stephenson (1822-1883) of Sigglesthorne, Yorkshire. He is recorded as a master tailor in the census of 1851.