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Lot 86
Sale 5505 - American Furniture, Decorative & Folk Art
Apr 19, 2016
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$15,000 -
25,000
Price Realized
$90,000
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Rare embroidered plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia susanna wilkinson atkinson, aged 14 years, alexandria, va, dated, "180
7" After a plan of the city drawn by Pierre Charles L'Enfant and Andrew Ellicott, published by James Thackara and John Vallance of Philadelphia, 1792, worked with silk threads, watercolor and ink on a silk ground, the needles inserted below inscription, framed.
21 in. x 35 1/2 in. (sight)