A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK PICTURE

A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK PICTURE

BY PATIENCE YOUNG LOVELL

worked with polychrome silks on a canvas ground, with cross, half-cross and split stitches, depicting 'The Flight into Egypt', with an angel showing the way above Mary holding Jesus, travelling on a donkey and Joseph standing next to them, above a verse titled 'The II. chap. of St.Mathew 13 verse', flanking a central inscription 'This done by Patience Young Lovell in the year of Our Lord 1811 Aged 12 years', in a glazed gilt frame

41.9 x 31.7cm

Provenance

Robert Hirschhorn Antiques, London, 8th May 1994.

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.249 for a discussion of this sampler.