An oval embroidered picture worked in coloured silks depicting Britannia with a lion, with a ship of the line flying the red ensign in the background--13in x 10in., with an inscription "Finished at Mrs Henritons (?) in the year 1801 by Mary Elliot Gourny in the fourteenth year of her age"

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An oval embroidered picture worked in coloured silks depicting Britannia with a lion, with a ship of the line flying the red ensign in the background--13in x 10in., with an inscription "Finished at Mrs Henritons (?) in the year 1801 by Mary Elliot Gourny in the fourteenth year of her age"

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