Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021
Lot 306
A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK EMANCIPATION OF SLAVE SAMPLER
Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £2500
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Description
A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK EMANCIPATION OF SLAVE SAMPLER
BY GRACE LAMBERT
worked with coloured wools on a linen ground, with cross, stem and chain stitch, titled 'Pity The Slave' and with a kneeling slave chained to a tree in a field of sheep, with further trees and birds, inscribed 'Emancipated in 1832, Hard was the Lot of the poor negro Slave. Poor and despised once I was, Yet thou O God was nigh, And when thy mercy first I saw, Sure none so glad as I', signed 'Grace Lambert's Work', in a later glazed ebonised frame
38 x 41.2cm
Provenance
Tennants Auctioneers, Leyburn, 7th June 2003.
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.171 for a discussion of this sampler.