A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY SARAH WEDGWOOD

worked with green and red silk on a linen ground, with alphabets, numerals and a poem 'On the dormant Rose', with birds, flowers and crowns, signed and dated 'Sarah Wedgwood 1776', in a glazed ebonised and gilt frame, the back with a handwritten family tree stating that Sarah Wedgwood was the third child of John Wedgwood and Mary Alsop, also with a carver gilder label for 'Jeremiah & Wm Freeman'

30.4 x 20.4cm

Provenance

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