£5,000
Female Education. A rare early 19th c Industrial School teacher's specimen portfolio, Isabella Erskine, dated Manchester, June 23rd 1821, recto pastedown with a tacked-on sampler explaining that: The following specimens of needle work were executed by Isabella Erskine, Teacher of Industrial Schools Patronized by Count and Countess De Salis [...], [16]ff of paper with 120 tacked-on samples, mostly annotated, mixed media, various sizes, comprising four needlework samplers, two of which are signed by IE, miniature dresses and smocks, hosiery, darning and knitting, including purses and bags, a pair of miniature cut-card hand screen banners, a needle case, a pen wipe as a butterfly, an embroidered cornucopia, other lacework, penwork, straw work, etc., 8 further specimens now loose, including a needlework picture and collages after source engravings, 3 further textiles tacked-on verso pastedown, contemporary hessian over limp wrappers, folio (44 x 25cm)
Provenance: the collection of Sally Tuffin (b. 1938), "Youthquake" fashion designer of the eponymous Foale and Tuffin.
Some of the leaves are tatty, a few with stable chips. The samples with wear, a few with losses, but most good. The binding with some threadbare splits here and there.
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