Lot Essay
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TWO FRAMED SILK EMBROIDERED PICTURES AND A PAIR OF PAINTED IVORY PORTRAITS
Comprising: a square silk-embroidered map on linen of the English counties inscribed A/General Map/of/England & Wales/By/Lydia Newsom/1788, a Regency oval silk-embroidered picture of a woman laying flowers on the tomb of Shakespeare, bearing the dealer's label label of D.M.E.P. Manheim, New York on reverse, and an early Victorian pair of painted ivory portraits, both of the same woman, one bearing the label: Jane ? Heart/Born February 13th 1804/Married Thomas Franklin/Died March 31st 1860 and both bearing label GEGAN,/FRAMEMAKER, GILDER,/ARTISTS' COLOURMAN,/75, BANK STREET,/MAIDSTONE
Map: 17¾in. (45cm.) high, 18½in. (47cm.) wide; Shakespeare's tomb (39cm.) high, 12¾in. (32cm.) wide; Ivory portraits: 6¾in. (17cm.) high, 6in. (15cm.) wide (3)
Comprising: a square silk-embroidered map on linen of the English counties inscribed A/General Map/of/England & Wales/By/Lydia Newsom/1788, a Regency oval silk-embroidered picture of a woman laying flowers on the tomb of Shakespeare, bearing the dealer's label label of D.M.E.P. Manheim, New York on reverse, and an early Victorian pair of painted ivory portraits, both of the same woman, one bearing the label: Jane ? Heart/Born February 13th 1804/Married Thomas Franklin/Died March 31st 1860 and both bearing label GEGAN,/FRAMEMAKER, GILDER,/ARTISTS' COLOURMAN,/75, BANK STREET,/MAIDSTONE
Map: 17¾in. (45cm.) high, 18½in. (47cm.) wide; Shakespeare's tomb (39cm.) high, 12¾in. (32cm.) wide; Ivory portraits: 6¾in. (17cm.) high, 6in. (15cm.) wide (3)