A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ELEANOR BARRINGTON

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground, in various stitches, including: cross, long, short, buttonhole bar and satin stitch, with a verse titled 'The Desire' from Thomas Dilworth's 'A New Guide to the English Tongue', above a scene with a house and a church, with trees, birds, sheep and a pond, signed and dated 'Eleanor Barrington ..March 1829, Born 29th March 1818', in a later glazed ebonised frame

38 x 31cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.21 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

A similar sampler was worked by Ann Howard aged ten in 1826 and can be found in a Private US Collection.