Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021
Lot 276
A LATE 18TH CENTURY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £850
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Description
A LATE 18TH CENTURY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
BY ELIZA C. SHALLCROSS, POSSIBLY AMERICAN
worked with long and short stitches in satin, with exotic birds and a butterfly flanking a verse from the poem 'To a Redbreast' by Reverend John Langhorne, with a meandering floral border and a house in colonial American style, inscribed 'Mount Pleasant' and signed and dated 'Eliza C. Shallcross Aged Ten, 1799', in a later glazed and ebonised frame
34.5 x 41cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, p.154 for a discussion of this sampler.