Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A VICTORIAN INDIAN MISSIONARY SAMPLER

BY ANNAL COILPILLEI, DATED 'MARCH 4 1878'

worked in the Quaker style in cream silk on a scarlet linen ground in both Tamil and English script with the bible verse Hebrews 13 vs 11 above stylised foliage and signed 'Annal. Coilpillei. March. 4. 1878', in a modern glazed, moulded ebonised frame, a paper label verso inscribed 'Worked, & presented to Mrs Wyatt, by a girl in her school. South India. Tamil. and. English'

24.5 x 19cm

Catalogue Note

Isabella (Eliza) Wyatt (1848 - 1933) was the daughter of Bishop Robert and Eliza Caldwell who ran a mission station in Idaiyangudi, Tirunelveli, India. After finishing school at St Mary's Hall, England, she returned to India where she campaigned for female education. She married Revd. Joseph Wyatt in 1868, bore seven children and took over the running of several schools from her mother eventually returning to Cambridge, England, in 1896. (Ref: www.britishempire.co.uk)