Models for an embroidery album. Botanical samplers of roses and sunflowers with the motto Souvenir d’Amitie or Souvenir of Friendship. 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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