A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARGARET PEEL

worked with coloured wool on a linen ground, with a house, urns of flowers, baskets of fruit, with an alphabet and inscribed 'John and Mary Peel Ruthwaite', signed and dated 'Margaret Peel Aged 14 Years 1834', in a glazed double-sided bird's eye maple frame, the back with an assortment of ephemera relating to John Peel and family

42.5 x 30cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.183 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

John Peel was a farmer from Cumberland who kept fox hounds. He is remembered in the well-known song 'D'ye Ken John Peel' written by his friend and fellow huntsman, John Woodcock Graves.