A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK MEMORIAL SAMPLER

A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK MEMORIAL SAMPLER

BY ELIZABETH HARRISON

worked with polychrome silks and beads on a linen ground, commemorating the death of Queen Charlotte, with a sarcophagus, inscribed 'Mrs Charlotte Died November 6 1817 Aged 22', with an urn issuing leaves, with a pair of weeping willow trees, birds and squirrels, inscribed 'On The Death of Her Royal Highness The Princess Charlotte of Wales', signed and dated 'Elizabeth Harrison's Work 1837', in a glazed burr oak frame

35.5 x 31.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.177 for a discussion of this sampler.