TWO NEEDLEWORK SAMPLERS

TWO NEEDLEWORK SAMPLERS

BY HANNAH NOBLE, LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY

worked with polychrome silks on a canvas ground, one with cross stitch, with an alphabet and numerals, above the title 'Easter Day' and a verse, signed and dated in a red cartouche 'Hannah Noble 1797', surrounded with pine trees, stars and a love heart, the other worked with an alphabet in eyelet stitch, above the title 'On Whit-Sunday' and a religious hymn worked with minute cross-stitch, signed at the bottom in a white cartouche 'Hannah Noble', both in later glazed gilt frames (2)

24.2 x 20cm (max)

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, pp. 252-253 for a discussion of these samplers.

Catalogue Note

These samplers were made as part of a four-piece series, all with a Christian subject.