A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY HARRISON

worked with coloured silks on a linen ground, with unusual clustered letter alphabets, bands of strawberries and gillyflowers, numerals and two tablets of poems, 'The Philosopher and the Pheasants', within a free-hand floral border of ribbon tied roses, campanula, primula, heartsease, anemone and other flowers, signed and dated 'Mary Harrison Her Work In The Tenth Year of Her Age October The Thirteenth 1783', the back with a handwritten paper label, inscribed 'This needlework was executed by I J Burkinyoungs own Mother and died while he was away for the day seeing the Naval Review at Spithead in 1856 after his return from Calcutta in 1855', in a glazed Hogarth type frame

40.7 x 32cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.202 for a discussion of this sampler.