AFA 18th Anniversary

ALWAYS INTERESTED IN PURCHASING FINE NEEDLEWORK Forty Ferry Road Old Saybrook, Connecticut 06475 Tel: 860.388.6809 www.AntiqueSamplers.com Hubers@AntiqueSamplers.com Shakespeare’s Play — CORIOLANUS Act V, scene III — American c.1825 Frances Clifton, the maker, attended the Bethlehem Female Seminary in PA and either there or later at a di erent school worked this large lavish silk embroidery. It depicts the dynamic moment Coriolanus’s wife, son, mother, and others, venture out from Rome and successfully plead with Coriolanus not to destroy the city.