Lot 36
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A sampler by Elizabeth Purnell aged 12, dated October 12 1847, worked in coloured silks over a linen ground with Adam and Eve beneath a pious verse So one a tree divinely fair..., the field scattered with flowers, crowns and animals, within a floral border--15½ x 15¾in. (39.5 x 40cm.), framed and glazed; and a small sampler by Ann Nason, dated 1768--9¾ x 8½in. (25 x 21.5cm.), framed and glazed
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A sampler by Elizabeth Purnell aged 12, dated October 12 1847, worked in coloured silks over a linen ground with Adam and Eve beneath a pious verse So one a tree divinely fair..., the field scattered with flowers, crowns and animals, within a floral border--15½ x 15¾in. (39.5 x 40cm.), framed and glazed; and a small sampler by Ann Nason, dated 1768--9¾ x 8½in. (25 x 21.5cm.), framed and glazed

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A sampler by Elizabeth Purnell aged 12, dated October 12 1847, worked in coloured silks over a linen ground with Adam and Eve beneath a pious verse So one a tree divinely fair..., the field scattered with flowers, crowns and animals, within a floral border--15½ x 15¾in. (39.5 x 40cm.), framed and glazed; and a small sampler by Ann Nason, dated 1768--9¾ x 8½in. (25 x 21.5cm.), framed and glazed
See Illustration of First Sampler (2)
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