A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY WOODROFFE

worked with polychrome silks on a tammy ground, in split, eyelet, satin and petit point stitches, with a pair of winged cherubs blowing trumpets above two tables, with hymns based on psalms 99 and 100, above a bird and a naive squirrel, signed 'Perform'd by Mary Woodroffe', in later glazed wood frame

48.5 x 31cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.147 for a discussion of this sampler.