Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021
Lot 331
A RARE GEORGE III IRISH NEEDLEWORK MAP SAMPLER
Estimate £800 - £1,200
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Description
A RARE GEORGE III IRISH NEEDLEWORK MAP SAMPLER
BY A. WOLFE, C.1800
worked with polychrome chenille and silk floss on a linen ground, using long and short, fern, split, satin and cross stitch with some couching depicting Ireland with all thirty-two counties and four regions, also divisions of latitude and longitude, the Irish sea with a compass, titled and signed 'A. Wolf', below a satin stitch tree, in a verre eglomise Hogarth type frame
41.3 x 33.8cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, pp.228-229 for a discussion of this sampler.