'Fanney Martin, her work 1773', a needlework sampler designed with a figure of William Shakespeare and a quote from The Tempest Act IV Scene 1' within an octagonal border the surround with a church, a clock, vases of flowers, two houses, trees, fruit and flowering plants, with coloured silks on a wool ground worked in cross, chain, long and short stitches, 54cm x 34cm. English, framed and glazed The figure of Shakespeare is likely to have been based on the statue by Scheemaker in Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey, London Provenance: Widgenton House, Buckinghamshire Condition report disclaimer
'Fanney Martin, her work 1773', a needlework sampler designed with a figure of William Shakespeare and a quote from The Tempest Act IV Scene 1' within an octagonal border the surround with a church, a clock, vases of flowers, two houses, trees, fruit and flowering plants, with coloured silks on a wool ground worked in cross, chain, long and short stitches, 54cm x 34cm. English, framed and glazed The figure of Shakespeare is likely to have been based on the statue by Scheemaker in Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey, London Provenance: Widgenton House, Buckinghamshire Condition report disclaimer
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