A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY HANNAH BACKHOUSE

worked with polychrome silks on a linen ground, with cross, eyelet, satin, split and French knot stitches, with alphabets, numerals, two verses and a free-hand border of various flowers, including: dog rose, tulips, convolvulus, carnations and primula, signed and dated 'Hannah Backhouse Wrought this in 1785', in a later glazed ebonised frame

43.7 x 40.8cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.106 for a discussion of this sampler.