C. Georgiana Mowland, who made the embroidery, was the eldest of four children of Matthew Mowland, who was a coachman from Hampshire, and his wife Eliza, who was from Devon. The 1851 Census shows Matthew and Eliza Mowland and their children living at the address given on the object. Georgiana (12), her brother Henry (6) and sisters Eliza (9) and Emily (4) had all been born in London, and the three eldest children were at school. Worked in London by C.G. Mowland (born about 1839)