Models for embroidered muslin purses. With designs of a landscape with cow, birds, butterflies, crosses and lattice patterns. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by D. Sluyter after an illustration by Cornelis Borsteegh from Anna Barbara van Meerten’s Penelope, Or Maandwerk aan het Vrouwelijk Geslacht Toegewijd (Penelope, Monthly Magazine dedicated to the Female Sex), Beijerinck, Amsterdam, 1821. Van Meerten was an educator, writer and pioneer in women’s rights in Holland.

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Size: 6100px × 4920px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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