AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY SUSANNAH PRESTON, AGED 8

worked with coloured wools on a linen ground, with a pair of trees flanking a verse, with ribbon tied flowers above a large castle, with detached button-hole picots flanked by urns of flowers and birds, signed and dated 'Susannah Preston, Aged 8 Years 1844', in a later glazed ebonised frame

44 x 29.6cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.27 for a discussion of this sampler.