A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK EMANCIPATION OF SLAVE SAMPLER

A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK EMANCIPATION OF SLAVE SAMPLER

BY GRACE LAMBERT

worked with coloured wools on a linen ground, with cross, stem and chain stitch, titled 'Pity The Slave' and with a kneeling slave chained to a tree in a field of sheep, with further trees and birds, inscribed 'Emancipated in 1832, Hard was the Lot of the poor negro Slave. Poor and despised once I was, Yet thou O God was nigh, And when thy mercy first I saw, Sure none so glad as I', signed 'Grace Lambert's Work', in a later glazed ebonised frame

38 x 41.2cm

Provenance

Tennants Auctioneers, Leyburn, 7th June 2003.

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.171 for a discussion of this sampler.