A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK AND BEADWORK SAMPLER

A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK AND BEADWORK SAMPLER

BY ELIZABETH WILCOX

worked with coloured beads and black silk on a linen ground, the floral border with a basket of pink roses, lilies, blue asters, forget-me-nots and buttlebrush flowers, around a cross-stitched hymn 'Child of Mortality', written by Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825), the base with a Gothic mansion, trees and a bridge, signed and dated 'Elizabeth Milliar Wilcox 1837', in a glazed flame mahogany frame

52.2 x 51cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.198 for a discussion of this sampler.