λ A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

λ A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY SARAH SUSANNAH NEWMAN

worked with polychrome silk on a linen ground, with various stitches, including: satin, split, lazy daisy and chain, with a pair of green parrots with berries in their beaks, above urns of flowers and baskets of fruit, with an elaborate and colourful floral spray, with a virtuous verse, signed and dated 'Sarah Susannah Newman A 1836', in a glazed rosewood frame

41.5 x 31.9cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p. 145 for a discussion of this sampler.