Lot 86

GEORGE III SAMPLER, WORKED BY ELIZABETH MORTON, AGE 10
DATED 1781





Auction: Lots 1 - 335 | 04 September at 10am
£1,008
Description
silk on linen, depicting a flowering vase with baskets, trees, stags, birds, figures, and other animals enclosing a central motto ‘Diligent Study And Application ….. Surmount The Greatest Difficulties … ’, signed in a reserve flanked by angels, ‘Elizabeth Morton the Tenth/ Year of her Age july 1781’, above a lower band with coronets, anchors, and crowned lions, within a meandering flower border, framed
Dimensions
40cm high, 28cm wide sight size




