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A VICTORIAN SAMPLER
1844
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A VICTORIAN SAMPLER
1844
Embroidered with an alphabet and a pious verse 'They that seek me/Shall surely find me/', and signed Sarah Susan Middleton, December 14, 1844, aged 7, framed and glazed
16 x 12 in. (40 x 31 cm.)
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Lot Essay
Sarah Middelton was the daughter of Col. Robert Myddelton Biddulph (d.1872), and the talented artist Fanny Mostyn Owen, whom he married in 1832.