A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY HARRIET HADLEY

worked with polychrome silks on a canvas ground, with cross, satin and split stitches, in a honeysuckle and leaves border with large dog roses in the corners, the centre with a child's prayer 'Give to me thy early Grace', flanked by an urn of flowers with a bird and a maiden holding a rose, above the picture of a couple in a tender embrace, surrounded by trees and a profusion of blossom, above the signature and date 'Harriet Hadley's work done 1837', the top centred with a floral spray with leaves and twisting vines, in a later glazed ebony and gilt frame

31.5 x 32.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.8 for a discussion of this sampler.