worked with various stitches in silk on linen, depicting a row of stylised tulips above a large gated country house and garden with flowering trees, baskets, animals, peacocks, and family intials, the lower panel with a large plough, flower-filled urns, coronets, and the verse ‘Ye generous Britons venerate the plough/ And oer your hills and long withdrawing vales/ Let autumn spread her treasures to the sun’, signed Agnus Morison and dated 1802, in a strawberry border, framed
45cm x 33cm, sight size, [frame excluded]
Note: The verse is taken from James Thomson's popular and influential book of poems ‘The Seasons', published in installments between 1726 and 1730.