A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY RUTH GRAVE

worked in cross stitch on a linen ground, with text describing descriptions and explanations of natural phenomena found in the 'English Spelling-Book' edited by William Mavor, Vicar of Hurley in Berkshire, signed and dated 'Ruth Grave 1810', in a later glazed gilt and ebonised frame

42 x 48cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.191 for a discussion of this sampler.