Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 763
A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK QUAKER ACKWORH SCHOOL SAMPLER
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £380
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Description
A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK QUAKER ACKWORH SCHOOL SAMPLER
BY SARAH ANN LIDBETTER
worked in cross stitch on a linen ground with alphabets and numerals and a verse from a work by Lindley Murray, signed and dated 'Sarah Ann Lidbetter 1831', in a later glazed ebonised frame
30 x 32.1cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.42 for a discussion of this sampler.
Catalogue Note
Sarah Lidbetter was from Southwick and was a registered scholar at Ackworth School between 1824 and 1827. Yet the date on the sampler is clearly 1831, does this mean that she remained at Ackworth and was perhaps engaged as an apprentice-teacher or did she complete her sampler after leaving Ackworth;