English: Barbara St. John Bletsoe, Countess of Coventry . English: The second wife of the Earl of Coventry, who was born Barbara St. John Bletsoe, is shown as an aristocrat dressed in fine muslin embroidered with gold thread and wearing a golden pin with a ruby and dangling pearls. Although she is pensive and at rest, the Countess has beside her on the table a large shuttle that attests to her industry and skill in fancy work. The instrument was used to make knotted lace, a forerunner of the tatted lace made with smaller shuttles by nineteenth- and twentieth-century ladies. . before 1807. 7
English: Barbara St. John Bletsoe, Countess of Coventry . English: The second wife of the Earl of Coventry, who was born Barbara St. John Bletsoe, is shown as an aristocrat dressed in fine muslin embroidered with gold thread and wearing a golden pin with a ruby and dangling pearls. Although she is pensive and at rest, the Countess has beside her on the table a large shuttle that attests to her industry and skill in fancy work. The instrument was used to make knotted lace, a forerunner of the tatted lace made with smaller shuttles by nineteenth- and twentieth-century ladies. . before 1807. 761 Kauffmann, Angelica, Barbara St. John Bletsoe, Countess of Coventry
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