A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK EXTRACT SAMPLER

A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK EXTRACT SAMPLER

BY MARGARET WILSON

worked on a linen ground, with the obituary of a Quaker, called George Storr, taken from a Leeds newspaper (The Leeds Mercury), within a freehand floral border embroidered with coloured silks, with lily, dog rose and other flowers, signed and dated 'Margaret Wilson Aged 9 years 1828', in a glazed bird's eye maple frame

40 x 37.6cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.177 for a discussion of this sampler.