AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ELIZABETH GRIFFITHS

worked with polychrome silks on a linen ground, with a large basket of flowers heightened with beads, on a shaded table top scattered with leaves and with two butterflies, within a freehand floral border with martagon lilies, snowdrops and roses, signed and dated 'Elizabeth Griffiths Aged 11 1839', in a glazed bird's eye maple frame

42.7 x 33cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, pp.106-107 for a discussion of this sampler.