A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER

A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL SAMPLER

BY ISABELLA HUNTERS

worked with polychrome silk floss on a linen ground, in cross, running and single satin stitch, depicting two men on a riverbank, one fishing and one with a walking cane, with trees and a cottage on a neat lawn, with a central text 'An Estimate of Human Life', with three outer borders, signed and dated 'Isabella Hunters work Aged 9 Years, Liverpool 24th June 1812', in a glazed mahogany frame

48.4 x 45.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.17 for a discussion of this sampler.