A FINE GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER

A FINE GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER

BY SARAH MERICK

worked with polychrome silks on a tammy ground, with satin, chain and split stitches, depicting a solitary elegantly dressed lady visiting a country churchyard, enclosed by railings, with headstones and an oversized thrush perched in a tree stump, the church with a clock tower, the corners with roses within a free-hand three quarter border, signed and dated 'Sarah Merick 1804', in a glazed giltwood frame

32.4 x 41.7cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.4 for a discussion of this sampler.