1789
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A SAMPLER BY ELIZABETH LITTLE-JOHN
1789
Aged ten years, worked in silks with an inscription 'in Remembrance of the truly honoured and virtuous lady Mrs. Elizabeth Howland', the cresting with angels holding a crown flanked by pedestals with birds and animals above vases issuing foliage, the base worked with a panel of a boat, further birds and flowers, with silk backing and rosewood ends
The panel - 17 in. (43 cm.) x 12½ in. (32 cm.)
1789
Aged ten years, worked in silks with an inscription 'in Remembrance of the truly honoured and virtuous lady Mrs. Elizabeth Howland', the cresting with angels holding a crown flanked by pedestals with birds and animals above vases issuing foliage, the base worked with a panel of a boat, further birds and flowers, with silk backing and rosewood ends
The panel - 17 in. (43 cm.) x 12½ in. (32 cm.)
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