Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

FOUR SCHOOL SAMPLERS

19TH CENTURY

containing: an alphabet sampler worked with polychrome cotton thread in cross stitch on a canvas ground, with capital and lower case alphabets and numbers, inscribed at the bottom 'Ellen Constable. Aged 9 yrs. St Andrew's Nat. Sch. 1873.', the back with a handwritten label 'Executed by a descendant of John Constable the painter. Purchased from the Constable family.', a small monochrome example worked with cross stitch, titled 'Habakkuk 3 - 17, 18.' above a verse, inscribed at the bottom 'Jane Fox. Boston National School. 1843.', the reverse inscribed in pen 'Lincolnshire Boston', a monochrome example worked with blue silk on canvas ground, with an upper and lower case alphabet and numbers, above the inscription 'Emily Burbridge. Born the 17th of May 1874. St Paul's Girls School. Park Lane. Tottenham.' and 'Worked for the Government Examination. 1885.', and a monochrome example worked with black thread on canvas, inscribed 'Declaration of the Keywood Youth's Temperance Society We whose names are hereunto subscribed do voluntarily agree to abstain from all intoxicating liquors except used as medicine or in a religious ordinance Esther Livsey Aug 21 1835 ...', all in glazed ebonised frames (4)

26.3 x 29.7cm

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.63 and p.254 for a discussion of two of the samplers.