A RARE GEORGE III IRISH NEEDLEWORK MAP SAMPLER

A RARE GEORGE III IRISH NEEDLEWORK MAP SAMPLER

BY A. WOLFE, C.1800

worked with polychrome chenille and silk floss on a linen ground, using long and short, fern, split, satin and cross stitch with some couching depicting Ireland with all thirty-two counties and four regions, also divisions of latitude and longitude, the Irish sea with a compass, titled and signed 'A. Wolf', below a satin stitch tree, in a verre eglomise Hogarth type frame

41.3 x 33.8cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, pp.228-229 for a discussion of this sampler.