A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY ANN SILVESTER

worked with bunches of grapes flanking a virtuous verse titled 'Jesus', with a holly branch above a young girl, carrying a basket of flowers, watering her roses in a garden setting, signed and dated 'Mary Ann Silvester Aged 12 years 1837', in a glazed ebonised and gilt frame

42 x 33cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.158 for a discussion of this sampler.