AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY ANN HOWES, C.1840

worked with monochrome red floss silk on a linen ground, with various stitches, including: Algerian eye, cross and four-sided, with alphabets, numerals, crowns, a flag and leaves and flowers, with five verses, signed 'Mary Ann Howes', in a later glazed ebonised frame

36.2 x 33cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.86 for a discussion of this sampler.