AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK INDIAN SCHOOL SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK INDIAN SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY CATHERINE DAVIES AND RUTH

worked with polychrome silks on a linen ground, in cross stitch, with alphabets and three verses, inscribed 'Marked by Catherine Davies ad Ruth for Miss tucker on her departure from India and presented by them in the name of all Mrs Schaffters Scholars. January 1840', in a later glazed ebonised frame

42 x 33cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.179 for a discussion of this sampler.