TWO VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLERS

TWO VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLERS

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

both worked with polychrome silks with cross stitch, one on a cotton ground, with an upper and lower case alphabet and numerals, above a row with the date '1876' and two crowns flanking letters, with a Gothic alphabet below, the row dividers with various designs and signed at the bottom 'Emma Cragg Age 10 years', the other on a gause ground, with a capital alphabet with the letters 'v' and 'u' in the wrong order, followed by letters from one to twelve, above a capital 'A' followed by a lower case alphabet with the 'j' missing and the 'v' and 'u' in the wrong order again, with an inscription 'A token of love from E Grieves to Lucy Case' (2)

15 x 12 (max)

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.94 for a discussion of these samplers.