AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ELIZABETH FRENCH AGED 50

worked with brightly coloured polychrome silks on a linen ground, with various stitches, including: chain, split, satin and twisted chain, with a Georgian house, a chapel, two further houses, urns of flowers, a pair of dogs and a crown supported by a pair of angels above Solomon's Porch, with a central virtuous verse from the 23rd Psalm, signed and dated 'Elizabeth French Aged 50 1845', in a later glazed wood frame

42.5 x 32.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.525, for a discussion of this sampler.