A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK MAP SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK MAP SAMPLER

ANONYMOUS, C.1800

worked with polychrome silks on a linen ground in various stitches, cross, satin, stem and straight, titled 'A Map of England and Wales', the counties outlined and named in black silk floss, with a colourful free-hand border of rosebuds, martagon lilies, carnations and other flowers, in a glazed giltwood frame

50.7 x 43cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.168-9 for a discussion of this sampler.