A RARE GEORGE III QUAKER MAP SAMPLER

A RARE GEORGE III QUAKER MAP SAMPLER

BY MARY ROBSON OF TRINITY LANE SCHOOL YORK

depicting England and Wales, the counties and place names worked in monochrome satin stitch, with the regions outlined in polychrome crewel yarn, on a linen ground, signed and dated 'Mary Robson 1802 York', in a verre eglomise Hogarth type frame

47.5 x 40.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.40 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

The private Quaker School in Trinity Lane, York was founded for more affluent girls than those eligible for Ackworth School. Mary Robson was born in 1789, a descendant of the wealthy and famous Pease banking family of Darlington.