A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY RICHARDS

worked with primarily brown thread on a linen ground, with cross, satin, petit point and running stitches, with a young boy riding a large dog, possibly a German shepherd, flanked by a pair of swans framed by trees, with a row of urns of flowers, dogs and trees, with a signature cartouche, inscribed in Gothic script 'Mary Richards Finished This. March 18th 1824. Aged 13 Years.', in a glazed bird's eye maple frame

39.5 x 30cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.146 for a discussion of this sampler.