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A naive woolwork of a basket of strawberries, English, late 18th Century.

Worked by Lady Elizabeth Archer (d. 1789), a sister of George, 1st Earl of Halifax.

The 1763 Burghley Inventory records: ‘Breakfast room….Needlework by Lady Eliz. Archer.’ 33cm by 23cm.

REFERENCE: TEX02504

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