English Embroidery Collection (C.1879-82)
Embroidered by "Elizabeth E. Jacobs"


A Victorian sampler (c.1882) embroidered in cotton cross stitch with EEJ (Elizabeth Jacobs) with the alphabet in two types of script above a band containing a vase of flowers, a kettle, a butterfly, buildings, birds and a basket of fruit, all in saxen blue, red brown, sea green and ochre cottons on a canvas ground. (11.5"x16.5").


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