A FINE GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A FINE GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ANN CARR

worked with polychrome silks on a fine gauze ground, in cross stitch, with birds and a squirrel in trees, urns of flowers, a farmer and his wife, with some Quaker style motifs with crowns and a swan, above Adam and Eve and the Tree of Knowledge, the base with a country scene with a red brick country house and a segmented ground, perhaps indicating different crops, with a shepherd and shepherdess with their flock, in a honeysuckle border, with a pair of laurel wreaths signed and dated 'Ann Carr Her Work' and 'Aged 15 in 1806', in a glazed ebonised and gilt frame

37.6 x 32.6cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.128 for a discussion of this sampler.