Lot 115
GEORGIAN SILK AND NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Auction: 4 July 2018 at 11:00 BST
£7,500
Description
with an alphabet above the names HENRY MACKENZIE and PANUEL GRANT and a verse, with the author's name MARGARET MACKENZIE, flanked by silkwork flowers, above three columns and scenes of a church and boats, in an ebonised frame
Dimensions
38cm x 31cm
Footnote
Note: this sampler is thought to have been worked by the daughter of Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831), the author of the novel 'The Man of Feeling', and to have been bought from Cullen House previously.