Fine Essex County, MA needlework, Sophia Hammond, 1802. 16.5" x 12 3/4"--with verse above which reads: Verse says:
Spring must pass, life must fade
No second spring to know
Virtue alone, celestial maid
Can Bloom eternal there below
Below it is inscribed:
Sophia Hammond's work
Wrought in the twelth
Year of her age...1802
Extraordinary pair of fine needlework pictures, probably English and possibly Dutch-- very early 18th C in custom tortoise and ebonized frames, fully restored on set of replacement stretchers, approx. 32.5" high x 37.5" wide.
