A LARGE WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER

A LARGE WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY SARAH FELLOWES OF RANDLE'S SCHOOL

worked with polychrome silks and beads on a linen ground, with various stitches, including: satin, cross, eyelet, straight and split with a pair of pineapples and a boldly worked basket of flowers, with a central text, titled 'Education', signed and dated 'Sarah Fellowe's work aged 13 1833' and inscribed 'Randle's School', in a glazed bird's eye maple frame

48 x 50.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.200 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

The text in this sampler is an extract from 'The Universal Spelling Book' by Daniel Fenning.