1828 St Pauls Sampler by Mary Turvey. Framed in an old wood frame with gilt slip and glass. Mounted to conservator standards on acid free card with chipboard backing. The sampler is worked in a silk-like thread on canvas ground, in cross stitch throughout. Floral border. Colours browns, cream, navy blue, gold, greens and black. Inscription reads 'St Pauls Church Covent Garden London'
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'All you my Friends who now expect to fee> A piece of Work thus perform'd by me'. Signed and dated 'Mary Turvey Finished Dec. 19 Aged 14 1825'. A few motifs including a depiction of St Pauls Church in Covent Garden, London (which still stands), stars, birds, angels, flowers, blossoming trees, fir trees and squirrels.
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Dimensions
15ins by 15ins wide
Circa Date
George IV, dated Dec. 19 1828
Description
1828 St Pauls Sampler by Mary Turvey. Framed in an old wood frame with gilt slip and glass. Mounted to conservator standards on acid free card with chipboard backing. The sampler is worked in a silk-like thread on canvas ground, in cross stitch throughout. Floral border. Colours browns, cream, navy blue, gold, greens and black. Inscription reads 'St Pauls Church Covent Garden London'
and
'All you my Friends who now expect to fee> A piece of Work thus perform'd by me'. Signed and dated 'Mary Turvey Finished Dec. 19 Aged 14 1825'. A few motifs including a depiction of St Pauls Church in Covent Garden, London (which still stands), stars, birds, angels, flowers, blossoming trees, fir trees and squirrels.
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