A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ELIZABETH FULLER

worked with coloured floss silk, in various stitches, including: bullion, on a linen ground, with alphabets, numerals, a virtuous verse, with a band of Bargello Florentine stitch, with angels flanking the Lord's Prayer above a pastoral scene with a shepherd and shepherdess, signed and dated 'Elizabeth Fuller April 30 in the Year of our Lord 1744', in a later glazed ebonised frame

44.9 x 30.5cm

Provenance

The Collection of Cora Ginsburg, Sotheby's London, 26th November 2003, lot 162.

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.19 for a discussion of this sampler.