A REGENCY IRISH NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER

A REGENCY IRISH NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY ELIZABETH NEALE

worked with cross stitch on a linen ground, with 'The Creation Required to Praise Its Author', within a scrolling leaf and flower border, signed and dated 'Elizabeth Neale Mountmelick Boarding School A.D. 1808', in a later glazed ebonised frame

49.2 x 33cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.47 for a discussion of this sampler.