Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021
Lot 465
A RARE GEORGE III QUAKER MAP SAMPLER
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £250
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Description
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.