A FINE GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER

A FINE GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER

ANONYMOUS, C.1800

worked with polychrome silks on a linen ground, with various stitches and techniques, including satin and double silk, with a view of a house and a ruined tower, with shading on the lawn and detailing on the large bush to the left of the house, in a freehand embroidered floral border, with daisies, roses, lilies, gillyflowers and bellflowers, in a glazed giltwood frame

33.8 x 39cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.13 for a discussion of this sampler.