Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 766
AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £900
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Description
AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER
BY SARAH PUGMIRE
worked with coloured wools on a coarse linen ground, with two names 'Jonathan Pugmire, Sarah Pugmire' with family initials, above a virtuous verse and a depiction of St. Cuthbert's Church, with a Celtic cross, with flowers and birds, signed and dated 'Sarah Pugmire her Work Finished in the Year of her ....Musgrave School in the Year 1847' in a glazed simulated wood frame
51 x 47.5cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.65 for a discussion of this sampler.
Catalogue Note
Lady Musgrave's School was opened in 1833 and was supported in part by the Dowager Lady Musgrave. According to the 1851 Census Sarah Pugmire was still living with her parents and working as a dress-maker.