A MINIATURE GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A MINIATURE GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

DATED '1826'

worked in red silk with cross stitch on a linen ground, with alphabets and numerals and 'Train up a child in the way he should go', with a Greek key border, in a glazed Hogarth type frame

8.8 x 6.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.91 for a discussion of this sampler.