λ A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK FAMILY REGISTER SAMPLER

λ A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK FAMILY REGISTER SAMPLER

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

worked with polychrome silk floss, with cross, long, short, split, stem and satin stitches on a fine linen ground, recording the marriage of John and Catherine Mellor in 1789, with the dates of the births of their seven children: John, James, Mary, Jane, Fanny, Sarah and Abraham and listing their deaths, 'James Mellor unfortunately killed Marched 21 1803 by falling into a coal pit in the action of sweeling in the 15 year of his age', with a freehand depiction of a crane, angels, birds, a butterfly, a lion, animals and trees in a floral border, in a glazed rosewood frame

41.8 x 33.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.144 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

Sweeling means burning furze.