A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLERS

A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLERS

BY THE SISTERS, ELIZABETH AND HANNAH LILLYWHITE

worked with coloured silks on a course linen ground, with alphabets, numerals, a religious verse, with trees, birds, angels and animals, each signed, one dated '1836', in later glazed bird's eye maple frames (2)

40.2 x 44.7cm (max)

Provenance

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