Details
An oval needlework picture, worked in coloured wools with painted details on a silk ground with a young woman holding a rose--10½ x 8¼in. (27 x 21cm.), framed and glazed, the reverse inscribed This... was wrought by Elizabeth Walford (of Essex) and is supposed to have been intended to represent herself...she lived to the age of 93 or 94 years, late 18th century
Sale room notice
Elizabeth Walford lived at Ightham Mote in Kent, a National Trust property since 1985. Ightham Mote was originally constructed in the 1340s and much altered in the sixteenth century.