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Click here to subscribeA George III needlework sampler worked by "Elizabeth Cobbett, finished this work July 13 1785, age 9 years", worked in coloured silks with verse entitled "Friendship", view of a house, windmill, birds and figures, within floral borders, on woollen cloth, 16.5ins x 13ins, in Victorian birdseye maple frame and glazed (somewhat mothed and holed)
A Regency sampler, worked in coloured silks on linen ground with alphabet, figures, miscellaneous letters, floral meanders, small spot motifs, two large eccentric houses in mirror image with a flight of birds and the woven inscription: "Alison Clow Todd her/Sampler finished/ April 14 1809". 13.75in. x 11.5in. 35cm. x 29cm. + Slight time and dirt staining mainly round sides, stained crease through right house. Framed and glazed.
A superb Regency sampler, embroidered in silk with various stitches in fine linen with a plethora of spot motifs including an ornamental bridge over a lake with dog, swans and weeping willow, a hive with swarming bees, an elaborate tree house, another house, a windmill, animals, birds, butterflies, vases of flowers etc. Woven inscription 'M.Joy/1816', all within an angular floral border. 14.25in. x 11in. 36cm. x 28cm. ++Three or four tiny insect holes. Gilt-wood frame and glazing original.
A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER by "Maggie W Scott Age 10", having rows of flowers above alphabetical samples, flowering plants and a religious verse ("Mark how the adoring hosts above/with songs surround the throne/ Ten thousand thousand is their tongues/But all their hearts are one/JS"), 40cm x 38cm, (15.75in x 15in), in gilt frame under glass
A GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, "Margaret Bell finished this work at Brownrigg Aged 16, July 8, Year 1829", having a row of birds and flowering plants above alphabetical and numerical samples and the verse "Remember thy Creator in the Days of thy youth", family initials beneath, 39cm x 29cm, (15.3inx 11.4in), framed under glass
Sampler. A George IV needlework sampler of silks on fine linen with a geometric border enclosing long stitched floral sprays and butterflies, a religious verse titled "The Christian's Hope", exotic birds in branches and four figures with gun, shepherd's crook, milk pail and with stag, sheep and dog, worked by Ellen Gregson Aetas 9, 1828, 49.5cm x 44.5cm 19 1/2 inches x 17 1/2 inches.
A Victorian needlework Sampler in red, pinks and cream, with central Tree of Knowledge, serpent and Adam and Eve, pair of red house, pair of flowering rose sprays, birds and hearts with three line quotation "And the Lord god said unto the woman...." Genisis 3, 13, signed, "Sarah Schofield, work in 1843", 15 1/2 x 18in, framed
A Large Sampler, Margaret Helme, Aged 12 Years, August 10 1844, worked with a variety of spot motifs around Adam and Eve, two mansions and a cottage around which are gathered nine figures, inscribed "Margaret Helme, Aged 12 Years, August 10 Anno Domini 1844", within a flowerhead and bud repeat motif border, in coloured cottons (fading), (65cm by 63cm)
A George III Sampler, Anne Hillman, 1806, worked with two family groups around a tree, over a six line verse, a country house and further figures below, inscribed "Anne Hillman finished this in her 10th year 1806", within a carnation and honeysuckle meander border in a variety of stitches in coloured silks and cottons, (41.5cm by 32cm), in a richly figured rosewood frame
A George IV Sampler, Margaret Morton, Aged 14, 1823, worked in coloured threads with the ABC over a four line verse, inscribed "Margaret Morton, her work, aged 14, 1823, taught by Mrs Metcalfe", over a line of trees and spot motifs, including a cat, Adam and Eve around a tree, a squirrel, vases of flowers, and a griffin, within a strawberry meander border, (38cm by 36cm)