AN EARLY VICTORIAN NAIVE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NAIVE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY LUCY COLLETT

worked with polychrome silks on a linen ground, with cross and rice stitches, the top with an upper case alphabet and the numbers from one to twelve, above a verse, the centre inscribed 'Lucy Collett Bourton on the Water', with a lower case alphabet running through, the lower part with a sprawling tree surrounded by motifs of a tree, blackbirds, a house, a dog and flowers, in a glazed wood frame

28.9 x 30.2cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.269 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

It is likely that this sampler was worked by Lucy Collett of Little Rissington, a hamlet near Bourton on the Water, around the age of six.