A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK ADAM AND EVE SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK ADAM AND EVE SAMPLER

BY MARY ANN LOCKWOOD

worked with polychrome silks on a tammy ground, in cross and satin stitch with a row of initialled crowns, the centre one for George III, above a verse, with pairs of birds, dogs, urns of flowers, the base with Adam and Eve with the Tree of Knowledge flanked by a pair of angels, signed and dated 'Mary Ann Lockwood Her Work Aged 10 Years 1798', in a later glazed ebonised frame

42.5 x 30.7cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.130 for a discussion of this sampler.