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The School Mistress J. Coles 1794

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/100626

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“KEEP WITHIN COMPASS”

Swan Intro

https://winterthur.oncell.com/en/distruptors-in-government-230865.html

http://inthewordsofwomen.com/?p=358

http://inthewordsofwomen.com/?p=358

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Madame de Pompadour at her Tambour Frame, François-Hubert Drouais, 1763-4

“However, she is presented here in her apartment at Versailles as an almost matronly figure embodying bourgeois virtue and industry as she works at a tapestry accompanied by one of her dogs.”

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/francois-hubert-drouais-madame-de-pompadour-at-her-tambour-frame

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1792, Patty Coggeshall 

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/14049

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Embroidered Sampler, 1766, Rebekah White, Salem, Massachusetts

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/14087

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Embroidered Sampler, 1799, Millsent Connor

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/13757

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Embroidered Chair Back, 1755–65, Mehitable Starkey

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/need/hd_need.htm

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Easy Chair, 1758, Caleb Gardner

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/need/hd_need.htm

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The Indian Princessca. 1750

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/need/hd_need.htm

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1792 Gilbert Stuart Catherine Lane Barker

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Ralph Earl, Sarah Tucker, 1790

His portrait of Sarah Tucker shows her industriously working on a needlework picture, wearing beautifully rendered fashionable attire. She is seated next to an open window with a view of the spire of Danbury’s Congregational Church. From the placard: Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83485340/sarah-fitzhugh

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The Loara Standish sampler, c. 1640. Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Domestick amusement. The fair seamstress, 1764, London

https://findit.library.yale.edu/catalog/digcoll:940887

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Ralph Earl, Mrs. Richard Alsop, 1792

https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/mrs-richard-alsop-7714

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Catherine Brass Yates (Mrs. Richard Yates), 1793/1794,  Gilbert Stuart

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.563.html

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https://www.thewadsworth.org/collection/american/

Elizabeth Eggington, unknown, 1664

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Mrs. Seymour Fort, John Singleton Copley, 1776-1780

Wadsworth Atheneum

https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_1901.34_WAMA