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MS 1791. Ackworth School.

Medallion sampler of landscape form almost certainly by Mary Storr, a scholar at Ackworth School between 1789 and 1791. It’s date places it as the earliest of a small group of similarly shaped and decorated examples of which two are in the Ackworth archive and dated 1794 and 1797.