A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY JANE NELMES

worked with polychrome silks on a cotton ground, with cross, half cross and split stitch, the top section with a verse from the ending of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, the final line completed with numerals, above a pattern row of crowns, three birds and various motifs, with the inscription 'Jane Nelmes born December Ye 3 1740', in a glazed ebonised and gilt frame

20 x 15cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.190 for a discussion of this sampler.