A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ELIZA LEWIS, IN THE MANNER OF THE MULLER ORPHANAGE

worked in cross stitch on a linen ground, with excerpts from the poem 'Summer' by the Scottish poet, James Thomason, titled 'Praise of England', signed and dated 'Eliza Lewis's work done in the thirteenth year of her age anno domini 1829', in a verre eglomise glazed and bird's eye maple frame

22.2 x 23cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.173 for a discussion of this sampler.