STEAMER INTEREST. A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
STEAMER INTEREST. A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
BY ESTHER BODKIN, DATED '1872'
worked with coloured silk on a linen ground, with alphabets, numerals, religious text and also with a description of a voyage 'We sailed from Liverpool in the steamer Wyoming on the 10 of April and landed at New York 23 and sailed from Quebec in the steamer Scandinavian on 22 June and landed at Liverpool 2 July 1872', in a later glazed ebonised frame
39.5 x 54.2cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.178 for a discussion of this sampler.
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STEAMER INTEREST. A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
BY ESTHER BODKIN, DATED '1872'
worked with coloured silk on a linen ground, with alphabets, numerals, religious text and also with a description of a voyage 'We sailed from Liverpool in the steamer Wyoming on the 10 of April and landed at New York 23 and sailed from Quebec in the steamer Scandinavian on 22 June and landed at Liverpool 2 July 1872', in a later glazed ebonised frame
39.5 x 54.2cm
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Literature
The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.178 for a discussion of this sampler.