Fantastic 17th Century English Needlework Fragment, Portrait of Young Woman with Large Hands and Flower handmade souvenir box She attended the Brighton College

She attended the Brighton College of Art

and appears to have been much loved

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Not including the hanging loop

Fantastic 17th Century English Needlework Fragment, Portrait of Young Woman with Large Hands and Flower handmade souvenir box She attended the Brighton CollegeThis one. I purchased her from a dealer in my neck of the woods with really exceptional things all pretty much all beyond my reach, but this came along with a much more elaborate 17th c. stumpwork, which was his interest, and so I was able to attain her and I do feel as though she travelled across nearly four hundred years and an ocean just to be found by me! I mean, look at those hands! This is a fragment from a c. mid 17th century English stump work