A RARE PAIR OF NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SAMPLERS

A RARE PAIR OF NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SAMPLERS

BY THE HOPKINS SISTERS, 1825 AND 1832, POSSIBLY IRISH OR AMERICAN

worked with coloured silks on a tammy ground, with various stitches, including: queen, cross, four sided and eyelet, each with alphabets, numerals and a verse, one signed 'Susan Hopkins's Work Aged 11 Years March 6th 1825', the other 'Lavinia Hopkims age 9 years 1832', in later glazed ebonised frames (2)

43.7 x 20cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, pp.92-93, for a discussion of these samplers.

Catalogue Note

It is interesting to note that the upper case Q in Susan's third alphabet is the same as those seen in Mountmellick examples.