A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK CAMPDEN SCHOOL SAMPLER

A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK CAMPDEN SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY MARY DRURY

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground, with a virtuous text within a freehand meandering flower border, signed and dated 'Mary Drury aged ten years Campden School 1822', in a later glazed bird's eye maple frame

28.2 x 23cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.60 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

A charity school was established in Chipping Campden early in the 18th century by James Thynne in nearby Buckland.