Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

DATED '1742'

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground with the twin tablets of the law as received by Moses, the ten commandments, from Exodus Chapter XX, flanked by figures of Moses and Aaron standing on plinths below drapes, with an angel mask, signed with initials 'E. R.', in later glazed giltwood frame

32.4 x 29.5cm

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.287 for a discussion of this sampler.