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Five framed embroidered and decorative panels 18th and 19th century
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description
- Samplers: Ireland, 42.5cm. high, 37.5cm. high; 1ft.4½in., 1ft.2½in.; Sharpe 44.5cm. high, 36cm. wide; 1ft.5½in., 1ft.2in.; and Broughton 39.5cm. high, 37cm. wide; 1ft.3½in., 1ft.2½in.
including three embroidered British samplers, all worked in polychrome and black silk threads in tent and cross stitch, with figures, stags, birds and trees and further small tree motifs, one sampler, signed Sarah Ireland, with Biblical scriptural text from, Isaiah Chp.Ivii, ver.14, within a cartouche, on an unbleached linen ground, another sampler, 18th century, signed Mary Anna Sharpe, Aged 10, with religious verse within a central cartouche surmounted by a coronet flanked by two cherubs and bearing the initials G. R., on bleached linen ground, another sampler, signed Mary Ann Broughton, September 1793, with embroidered proverb text and an additional alphabet panel worked in eyelet stitch, all mounted in later wooden glazed frames; together with a collage cut work-paper picture of gun dogs, and a further framed print on velvet (5)
Catalogue Note
Mary Ann Broughton is probably one of the children of Thomas Broughton of Gilmorton (bapt.1765-d.1848) and his wife Ann Deacon (d.1835). Thomas Broughton's grandson John Broughton was in turn grandfather to Huttleston Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven (1896-1966) and his brother Henry who succeeded him as 2nd Baron Fairhaven (1900-1973).