A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY CATHERINE ELAM

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground in various stitches, with 'Psalm XIX' within a free-hand floral border, signed and dated Done at Nottingham by Catherine Elam MDCCLXVIII', within a cross stitch outer band, inscribed 'Wise Instructions Prize Far More Than Treasures from the Indian Shore', in a glazed gilt and ebonised frame

35.1 x 28.9cm

Provenance

Woolley & Wallis, Furniture & Works of Art, 5th April 2011, lot 106.

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