Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021
Lot 344
AN AMERICAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £280
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Description
AN AMERICAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
BY SARAH KNOWER, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
worked with black and grey floss silk on a coarse linen ground, in cross stitch with 'An Elegy' inscribed 'On the Death of Mrs Maria Knower consort of Samuel Knower who Died at Sing Sing westchester Co NY on the 7th of August AD 1829' and signed 'Worked by Sarah Knower aged 10 years', in a later glazed ebonised frame
44.6 x 40cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.176 for a discussion of this sampler.
Catalogue Note
In the 17th century, the Knower family were one of the first recorded settler families in the Massachusetts area and research concludes that the family originally came from Eastcheap, London.