A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE II NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY SARAH WITHAM, POSSIBLY SCOTTISH

worked in red and green silks in cross stitch on a linen ground, with alphabets, crowns, hearts, proverbs, biblical texts and the Lord's Prayer, signed 'Sarah Witham ended this sampler December the 19 I II, the year of our Lord 1739', in a later glazed ebonised wood frame

42.4 x 23.6cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, pp.222-223 for a discussion of this sampler.