Alphabets in Blue with Wavering Lines and Many Extra Tries, Early 19th C. Practice Sampler antique british floral study edited by Ron Padgett

edited by Ron Padgett

measures 3 1/4" tall with a diameter of 3 1/2" and an opening of 1 5/8"

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Friburgh who signed this watercolor

It shows light wear

Alphabets in Blue with Wavering Lines and Many Extra Tries, Early 19th C. Practice Sampler antique british floral study edited by Ron PadgettA perfect example of the sort of sampler I love one filled with personality, completely radiating the hand and humanity of the girl who made it, in this case surely quite a young one. Just look at those completely wonky wavering free hand lines separating each row of letters, and then the back to back repetition of certain letters SSS, UU, WWW, YY as if the second or third try would be the charm. And brown thread for just a few, disrupting the blue of