Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 696
A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK NAVAL SAMPLER
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £950
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Description
A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK NAVAL SAMPLER
C.1815-20
worked with coloured silks on a line ground with alphabets and numerals above three sailing ships each titled 'Hope', 'Nelson' and 'Charlotte', with a verse 'Brave Henry tempts the dangerous sea' after Mrs Barbauld's 'Simple Stories in verse', above a country house, signed and dated 'Sophia Evans her work, Aged nine years', in a later glazed, gilt and ebonised frame
37.5 x 29cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.175 for a discussion of this sampler.