An oval embroidered picture worked in coloured silks with a young woman returning from gleaning corn, with trees and a church in the distance, the details and sky of painted silk--6½in x 9in., framed and glazed

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An oval embroidered picture worked in coloured silks with a young woman returning from gleaning corn, with trees and a church in the distance, the details and sky of painted silk--6½in x 9in., framed and glazed

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Stuck to the reverse is a scrap of paper inscribed "Worked by Mrs. Bird, Gressenhall, East Dereham, Norfolk, 179?."

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