A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK MEMORIAL SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK MEMORIAL SAMPLER

BY ELIZABETH PEIRCE

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground, with satin, long, short, cross, split and stem stitch, with a rondel framing a young girl beside a funerary monument, with free-hand floral borders, with bows of her sister's plated hair and a row of strawberries, inscribed 'Sacred to the Memory of Providence Maria Peirce whose Immortal Soul Was Conveyed Into Heaven, on Tuesday 8th Decr 11 OClock PM 1801, Aged 5 Years, 3 Weeks, and 2 days', signed and dated Elizabeth Caroline Peirce Her Work Finish'd May 24th 1803', in a verre eglomise and bird's eye maple frame

38.5 x 31.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.149 for a discussion of this sampler.