An interesting Victorian rosewood needlepoint fire screen, t...

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£200 - £300

An interesting Victorian rosewood needlepoint fire screen, the design is of a Landseer painting of Queen Victoria's favourite Skye terrier, parrot, songbirds and a castle in the background, 89 by 58 by 141cm high, this design is slightly different to the Berlin woolwork kits of the time and identical to one presented by the Queen to the Bethnal Green Museum, together with various cuttings and letters linking it as a gift from Queen Victoria to lady Hastings.
Provenance: Purchased at the sale of contents at Castle Donington Hall when the new owners were clearing some rooms. Notes: Lady Flora Elizabeth Rawdon-Hastings was a British aristocrat and lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent. Her death in 1839 was the subject of a court scandal that gave the Queen a negative image.