A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK MAP SAMPLER, WORKED BY SUSANNAH POYNDER, 1788
oval, embroidered linen 'MAP OF ENGLAND & WALES' delineating the named counties and surrounding seas and lands within a trailing floral border, glazed in its contemporary gilt gessoed wood frame with gadroon border, the reverse with contemporary inscription 'This Map was worked and finished / by Susannah Poynder in the Eleventh / Year of her Age A.D.1788' below the trade label of R. Cribb & Son of 288 High Holborn stuck over an older trade label, all protected under a later perspex sheet, 60 x 51.5cm including frameoval, embroidered linen 'MAP OF ENGLAND & WALES' delineating the named counties and surrounding seas and lands within a trailing floral border, glazed in its contemporary gilt gessoed wood frame with gadroon border, the reverse with contemporary inscription 'This Map was worked and finished / by Susannah Poynder in the Eleventh / Year of her Age A.D.1788' below the trade label of R. Cribb & Son of 288 High Holborn stuck over an older trade label, all protected under a later perspex sheet, 60 x 51.5cm including frame
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oval, embroidered linen 'MAP OF ENGLAND & WALES' delineating the named counties and surrounding seas and lands within a trailing floral border, glazed in its contemporary gilt gessoed wood frame with gadroon border, the reverse with contemporary inscription 'This Map was worked and finished / by Susannah Poynder in the Eleventh / Year of her Age A.D.1788' below the trade label of R. Cribb & Son of 288 High Holborn stuck over an older trade label, all protected under a later perspex sheet, 60 x 51.5cm including frameoval, embroidered linen 'MAP OF ENGLAND & WALES' delineating the named counties and surrounding seas and lands within a trailing floral border, glazed in its contemporary gilt gessoed wood frame with gadroon border, the reverse with contemporary inscription 'This Map was worked and finished / by Susannah Poynder in the Eleventh / Year of her Age A.D.1788' below the trade label of R. Cribb & Son of 288 High Holborn stuck over an older trade label, all protected under a later perspex sheet, 60 x 51.5cm including frame
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