A REGENCY IRISH NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER

A REGENCY IRISH NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY JANE ROBINSON

worked with polychrome silks in cross, satin and eyelet stitch on a linen ground, with brightly coloured alphabets, one in the mythical 'Holbein' stitch, and numerals, with bands of flowers within a scrolling leaf and flower border, signed and dated 'Elizabeth Neale Mountmelick School Anno Dom 1815', in a later glazed ebonised frame

58.8 x 32.8cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.50 for a discussion of this sampler.