STEAMER INTEREST. A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

STEAMER INTEREST. A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ESTHER BODKIN, DATED '1872'

worked with coloured silk on a linen ground, with alphabets, numerals, religious text and also with a description of a voyage 'We sailed from Liverpool in the steamer Wyoming on the 10 of April and landed at New York 23 and sailed from Quebec in the steamer Scandinavian on 22 June and landed at Liverpool 2 July 1872', in a later glazed ebonised frame

39.5 x 54.2cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.178 for a discussion of this sampler.