A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY L EBBAGE

worked in coloured silks on a linen ground, with an alphabet, a verse, with the Spies of Canaan, Joshua and Calbe, holding a huge bunch of grapes, with birds and trees, signed and dated 'L Ebbage Finished This 1776', in a later glazed gilt frame

20 x 13.5cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.190 for a discussion of this sampler.