AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK ASYLUM SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK ASYLUM SAMPLER

BY MARY ANN SMITH

worked in polychrome silks on a linen ground, with various techniques and stitches,decorated with a bunch of grapes, butterflies, a house, Adam and Eve beside the Tree of Knowledge, urns of flowers and a pair of angels around a Berlin woolwork style depiction of an Arab man with a stallion, with a floral border, signed and dated 'Mary Ann Smith her work done in Mr Rame's Asylum, in the year 1846', in a glazed rosewood frame

31.5 x 42cm

Provenance

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