AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER;

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER;

BY MARY DERRICK

worked with coloured silks and wool with cross stitch on a tammy ground, with a church and the inscription 'Peace', with a squadron of birds in the sky above a verse, a cottage and a windmill with a naive bird in a tree, in a Berlin woolwork style border, signed 'Mary Derrick Age 10', in a glazed bird's eye maple frame

37.5 x 30.8cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.13 for a discussion of this sampler.