DATED 1734
Details
A GEORGE II SILK-EMBROIDERED NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
dated 1734
Depicting angels and celestial phases above a courting young gentleman and lady surrounded by cavorting animals and centering an inscribed oval with sixteen registers worked with verse, stitches, strawberry blossoms, exotic birds 'THE LADYS CALLING TEAC/HETH NORT ROMANCE NOR FO/ND INTRIGUES OF LOVE OR MO/ODS OF FRANCE READING GOOD BOO/KS AND NEEDLEWORK SHOULD BE THEI/RE WHOLE DIVERSION AND FELISCITY/ICVCSCMPNCSCGPRPWDEDWWIWEP/MARGRETT CLARK/AGED TWELVE 1734 WHEN THIS YOU SEE REMEMBER ME/MCS68910', worked on linen in long stitch with silk and metallic threads
15in. (38cm.) high, 12½in. (32cm.) wide
dated 1734
Depicting angels and celestial phases above a courting young gentleman and lady surrounded by cavorting animals and centering an inscribed oval with sixteen registers worked with verse, stitches, strawberry blossoms, exotic birds 'THE LADYS CALLING TEAC/HETH NORT ROMANCE NOR FO/ND INTRIGUES OF LOVE OR MO/ODS OF FRANCE READING GOOD BOO/KS AND NEEDLEWORK SHOULD BE THEI/RE WHOLE DIVERSION AND FELISCITY/ICVCSCMPNCSCGPRPWDEDWWIWEP/MARGRETT CLARK/AGED TWELVE 1734 WHEN THIS YOU SEE REMEMBER ME/MCS68910', worked on linen in long stitch with silk and metallic threads
15in. (38cm.) high, 12½in. (32cm.) wide
Provenance
Ruth Troiani, Farmington, New York, 1984