£819
Auction: Five Centuries
worked in silk and linen thread on a linen ground, with three sections, the top with the prayer 'Jesus permit thy gracious name to stand, - As the first efforts of an infant hand: - An while her fingers o'er the canvass move - Help her betimes to know and taste thy love/ With thy dear children may she have her part/ And write thy name they-self upon her heart -'; above a band with a house and fence, dog, various trees, birds, insects and a bee; the lower field with twin flowering urns, dogs, birds, and insects and a central reserve signed Elisabeth Barber. Finished. January 1820' within a strawberry vine border and enclosed in a moulded period frame with carved scroll cresting