Exceptional Folk Art Pictorial Needlework Sampler

Exceptional Folk Art Pictorial Needlework Sampler
Depicting a Row of Terraced Cottages and Figurative Motifs
Embroidered Coloured Wools on Canvas
Inscribed "SAINT ANN'S CROSS, F WILDIN, AGED 53"
English, c.1857

31" high x 37 ¾" wide (framed)

Footnote: This large and colourful pictorial needlework is a significant documentary work of British Folk Art, particularly unusual in that it is the work of an adult Frances Wildin, who embroidered it at the age of 53. The woolwork picture depicts four cottages that still stand today in the Gloucestershire village of Bream in the Forest of Dean. The cottages are situated directly opposite land known as "St Ann's Cross" where historically there was an actual cross, recorded in 1788. Frances was born in 1804 and was buried in the churchyard in Bream in 1877, at the age of 73, which dates this embroidery to c.1857.

Ref: 9819