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| Keywords: Kauffmann, Angelica, Barbara St. John Bletsoe, Countess of Coventry.jpg Artwork Creator Angelica Kauffmann 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 Oil on canvas Size cm 130 8 119 3 <br> frame Size cm 129 5 117 5 6 4 Institution Princeton University Art Museum European Art object history exhibition history credit line Gift of Teri Noel Towe Class of 1970 in grateful and loving memory of his father and mother Kenneth Crawford Towe and Betty McCarn Towe accession number 1998-285 place of creation Switzerland Princeton University Art Museum PD-old-100 1807 cite web Barbara St John Bletsoe Countess of Coventry 1998-285 http //artmuseum princeton edu/collections/objects/36827 Princeton University Art Museum Swiss paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1800 European Portraits in the Princeton University Art Museum 1800 Portrait paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1800 18th-century portrait paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1800 George Coventry 6th Earl of Coventry Paintings by Angelica Kauffmann | ||||
