Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 886
A LARGE EARLY VICTORIAN BERLIN WOOLWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER
Estimate £300 - £500
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Description
A LARGE EARLY VICTORIAN BERLIN WOOLWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER
BY ELIZABETH HARBY
worked with polychrome thread on a linen ground with two young girls in a garden setting with a lush cabbage-rose border, signed and dated 'Elizabeth Harby Aged 15 December 16th Anno Domini 1842, Derby' in a Gothic script, in a glazed ebonised frame
49.5 x 47.7cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.159 for a discussion of this sampler.