AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ANNE WILLS INSLEY

worked with polychrome silks on a linen ground in cross, satin, stem and running stitch, depicting Jesus meeting with his mother Mary after his first fall, the fourth Station of the Cross, with pairs of butterflies, birds, urns of flowers, squirrels, bees and a birdcage, in a rose border, signed and dated 'Anne Wills Insley Aged 11 years 1843', in a glazed ebonised frame

41.1 x 31.2cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.258 for a discussion of this sampler.