TWO NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLERS

TWO NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLERS

BY EMILY AND FRANCES MARGARET HAYWARD

both worked with polychrome silks on a linen ground, worked with minute cross-stitch and eyelet stitch, with a zigzag and strawberry border, with upper case and lower case alphabets and numbers, with dividing row patterns, above a four line verse, one signed and dated 'Emily Hayward, April 8th 1813', the other 'Frances Margaret Hayward, February 20th 1817', both in glazed ebonised and gilt frames (2)

30 x 26.6cm (max)

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, pp.204-205 for a discussion of these samplers.