F712 Wonderful identified and dated hand stitched needlepoint Sampler attributed to “Coventry School Droitwich” “Sarah H Willis AD. 1849”. Sampler is stitched on linen and boasts both upper, and lower case alphabet and the numbers 1-9,0 stitched in a tan colored thread. A beautiful symmetrical floral border is stitched in green, tan and pink threads. Early frame measures 8 7/8” tall x 6 3/4” wide.The Coventry School Droitwich was a workhouse school in England for pauper children – “Under the 1834 Act, Poor Law Unions were required to provide at least three hours a day of schooling for workhouse children, and to appoint a schoolmaster and/or schoolmistress. The children were taught “reading, writing, arithmetic and the principles of the Christian Religion, and such other instruction as may fit them for service, and train them to habits of usefulness, industry and virtue”
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