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A school sampler by Elizabeth Ecklee, finely worked in coloured silks with a fine Georgian mansion with a dog seated in the foreground flanked by a pair of white harts, with alphabets above and a pious verse below, with the inscription:
'Elizabeth Ecklee did this at Mrs Hill's Academy
Kempsey in the 11th year of her age 1804'
within a trailing strawberry border--11½ x 9in. (29 x 13cm.), English, framed and glazed
See illustration
'Elizabeth Ecklee did this at Mrs Hill's Academy
Kempsey in the 11th year of her age 1804'
within a trailing strawberry border--11½ x 9in. (29 x 13cm.), English, framed and glazed
See illustration
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