A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK MEMORIAL SAMPLER

A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK MEMORIAL SAMPLER

BY L. S. M. DAVIS

worked with various stitches, with polychrome silks and some metallic thread, on a linen ground with traces of under drawing, with a central scene of a man and a woman beside a tomb, with trees and a colourful flower border, inscribed 'Sacred to the memory of our belov'd parents, father. obit June 7th 1825, aged 48 years, mother. obit Feby 12th 1826, aged 47 years. This piece is worked by their daughter, L. S. M. Davis, aged 14 years, 1832.', with a religious verse flanked by two C's with stars, in a glazed gilt and ebonised frame

53.5 x 33.5cm

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, the collection of Micheál and Elisabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.156 for a discussion of this sampler.