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Click here to subscribeA Victorian Sampler, with verse above flowers and birds, within a meandering foliate border, Mary Partington, 1850, 30 x 29 cm, a Victorian sampler, of family registry with verse, decorated flowers, Mary Ann Wrigley, 1842, 47 x58 cm, and a Berlin woolwork picture, decorated a child and dog, Margaret Ingham, 1862, 73 x 63 cm (3) .
AN UNFRAMED GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER by 'Jane Rumney Aged 9 Years 1824', having double alphabetical samples and numerical samples (1-16) above the verse 'Mean tho' I am not wholly so/Since quicken'd by thy breath/ O lead me wherer oe'r I go/Thro' this day's life or death', in principally pastel shades of apricot, pink, green and blue, within brown 'dog-tooth' border, 28cm, (11in) square
A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER having multiple polychrome sets of numer- ical and upper and lower case alphabetical samples, above a row of flowering plants including tulips, and a religious verse by Cowper, named beneath 'James Jardine Alexander Jardine/Annie Jardine December 3rd 1857', with floral meander surround, 46.5cm x 42.5cm, (18.3in x 16.7in), in a stained wooden frame under glass (Colour fading, minor losses).
A GOOD LARGE 1930s NEEDLEWORK 'SAMPLER' worked by 'WHM 1936', centred by a religious verse 'When wealth to virtous hands is given...' within well- stitched flowers (single and in baskets), above a garden scene with various trees and plants plus two goats, two cats and a dog, within foliate border, 44.5cm x 125.5cm, (17.5in x 49.4in) in a bird's eye maple frame under glass.
A silkwork sampler by Ellen Plowman, aged 8, dated 1839, worked in black with religious and moral verses centred by a basket of fruit within stylised trees and surrounded by a geometric floral border within mahogany frame, 16.75" x 15.5" and a coloured silkwork sampler by Isabella Stewart, aged 12, dated 1841 worked with the alphabet, numerical sequences and a house and flowers in a variety of stitches in mahogany frame, 19.5" x 11" (2)
A silkwork sampler, by Margaret Taylor dated 5th Sept.1807 finely worked with a central verse titled 'On friendship' surmounted by a frieze of Adam, Eve and the Serpent, deer, cherubs, birds and trees, the bottom section worked with numerous motifs to include floral sprays, vases and baskets of flowers, figures, coronets, hearts and butterflies, all within a stylised floral border and gilt frame, torn in places, stained and faded, 15.75" x 14.25"
A George IV needlework sampler worked by "Barbara Goldsmith, 12 years, 1825",in coloured silks with verse "on an infant", alphabet, numbers, trees, flowers and birds within floral border, on coarse woollen cloth, 16ins x 13ins (slightly mothed, with repairs and somewhat discoloured), in stained wood frame
A late George III "Adam & Eve" needlework sampler, worked by "Nancy Whiteley, Was Born the 12 Day of April 1807", in coloured silks with view of a house, verse, figure of a soldier and his female companion, various flowers, cherubs and the figures of Adam and Eve beneath a tree, on coarse linen ground, 25.5ins square (ground somewhat discoloured and silks faded), contained in contemporary mahogany moulded frame and glazed
A 19th century Berlin woolwork sampler by Sarah Harris, worked in coloured wools on a blue ground with a central image of a spaniel seated upon a tasselled cushion above the inscription Sarah Harris Her Work, September 14th 1869, within a border of repeating flowerheads and leaves, 79 x 63.5cm.
An early 19th century linen sampler by Maria Pressland, worked in coloured silks in crosstitch and other stitches with verses, biographical information, a prayer, self-portrait seated at a table, and motifs including an angel, squirrels, an organ, birds, trees and a horn of plenty, 47 x 55.5cm
A mahogany pole screen mounted with an early 19th century canvas sampler, worked in crosstitch in coloured silks, with a central motif of a castle surrounded by dogs, birds, flowering shrubs, peacocks and reindeer, within a meandering stylised flower border, dated 1816, 37.5 x 32.5cm, the screen 140cm high overall