A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY A. M. HAIRBY

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground, with an extract from Hugh Blair's 'The Classic; Or, Summary of Mental Improvement and Moral Entertainment', above a pair of beehives and a raised work basket cartouche, signed and dated 'A. M. Hairby Dec.br 1814' with a freehand leaf and floral border, the top with ribbon tied swags of laurel and with farm tools, in a later glazed ebonised frame

37.5 x 33cm

Provenance

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