Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 770
AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £2000
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Description
AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
BY AGNES CARR
worked in cross stitch with a view of the church of St. Margaret of Antioch at High Bentham, depicting the gate and the path leading to the west door, flanked by urns of flowers, with a virtuous verse, signed and dated 'Agnes Carr....s Work donin 1840 St. Margreat Church...at Bentham..For Remembrance', in a later glazed oak cushion frame
29.5 x 36.9cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.64 for a discussion of this sampler.