A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY LOUISA LOVELOCK

worked with silk floss on fine canvas, with various stitches, including: eyelet, half-cross, tent, with a rose and fleur-de-lis border around a verse from 'The Economy of Human Life', signed 'Louisa Lovelock' and inscribed 'Royal Free Mason's School 1853', in a glazed giltwood frame

22.7 x 39.5

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.52 for a discussion of this sampler.