Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 783
AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK QUAKER ACKWORTH SCHOOL SAMPLER
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £400
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Description
AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK QUAKER ACKWORTH SCHOOL SAMPLER
BY ELIZABETH ANNA FOLLOWS
worked with blue silk in cross stitch on a linen ground with alphabets and numerals, signed and dated 'Elizabeth Anna Follows, Warrington 1854', in a glazed ebonised wood frame
19 x 18.8cm
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
Elizabeth Follows was born in Aston near Birmingham but by 1851, Elizabeth aged 9 was living in Warrington with her widowed mother. Elizabeth attended Ackworth School from 1853-1857, after which she remained an apprentice in the school until 1863.