Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 688
A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK PRIMITVE PICTORIAL SAMPLER
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £300
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Description
A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK PRIMITVE PICTORIAL SAMPLER
BY HANNAH MELLOR
worked a verse above a fashionably bonneted young girl holding a posy beneath a tree, with a church and two houses and a an undulating avenue of poplar trees within a gillyflower border, signed 'Hannah Mellor Aged 12. Feb. 15th 1830', in a later glazed moulded wood frame
37.7 x 39.7cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.29. for a discussion of this sampler.