A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER

A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY JANE BIRKETT

worked with pink silk floss on a tammy ground, in cross, satin and eyelet stitch with alphabets and numerals, titled 'England and Wales contain fifty two Counties', with a list of all the counties, within a strawberry border, signed and dated 'Jane Birkett Finished Oct. 1814', in a later glazed gilt frame

42.5 x 32.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.212 for a discussion of this sampler.