A PAIR OF REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLERS

A PAIR OF REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLERS

BY BETSY HIGINBOTHAM

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground, with various stitches, including: cross, lazy daisy, rice stitch and bullion and French knots, each with a young lady sheltering under a tree, as Potiphar's wife and Ruth, within a landscape with buildings in the distance, with text from Genesis chapter 39, verses 2/3 and 13, in strawberry borders, each signed 'Betsy Higinbothams' and dated '1812' and '1814' in glazed bird's eye maple frames (2)

45.6 x 34.4cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, pp.250-251, for a discussion of these samplers.