A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY RACHEL CANNOM

worked with coloured silks and wool on a linen ground, with various stitches, including: split, chain, long-armed, cross and rice with a verse titled 'Live to Die' and a free-hand basket of strawberries, cherries and grapes, with a bold floral border, signed and dated 'Rachel Cannom Aged 9 1826', in a glazed ebonised frame

43.5 x 31.1cm

Provenance

Christie's South Kensington, 24th October 2000, lot 53.

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.122 for a discussion of this sampler.