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Mount Vernon c.1825
Magnificent silk embroidered picture inscribed, "MT. VERNON RESIDENCE OF WASHINGTON" - "C. A. BRUCE."
Worked by Charlotte Augusta Bruce while attending school, probably in New York City. She was an ancestor of Robert
Moffat Bruce who founded the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Wool, silk and watercolor on silk; 27 x 37 inches framed.
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