A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY SALLY COZENS

worked with polychrome silks on a linen ground, with various stitches, including: satin, cross, stem, seeding, split and chain, with the verse 'The Fragrant Rose', with two large baskets of flowers flanking an elegantly dressed lady holding a rose in her garden, with a dog and a hen, above two gentlemen, one holding a rifle, and a deer, a pointer dog, birds and two cottages, signed and dated 'Sally Cozens Her Work in the 13 Year of Her Age 1794', in a later glazed ebonised and gilt frame

39.2 x 32.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.11 for a discussion of this sampler.