AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK VALENTINE

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK VALENTINE

ANONYMOUS

worked with monochrome gold silk floss in cross stitch on a fine linen ground, with a verse and inscribed 'C. Powell', with star, diamond and heart motifs, signed and dated 'M.A.R. 1842', in a glazed giltwood frame

12.8 x 15.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p. 95 for a discussion of this sampler.