AN EARLY VICTORIAN NAIVE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NAIVE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY ANNE OWEN, PROBABLY WELSH

worked with polychrome silks on a linen ground, with cross, satin and split stitches, with an oversized rabbit, a pair of elephants, snails, fish and lions, and a young lady holding a trug of gathered flowers, flanked by a pair of giant roses, signed and dated 'Mary Anne Owen 1846', in a glazed bird's eye maple and gilt frame

35.6 x 30.6cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.162 for a discussion of this sampler.