Fine and Rare Silk Embroidered and Painted Picture: Disinterestedness of Phocion, Sarah Batelle, Mrs. Saunders & Miss Beach's Academy, Dorchester, Massachusetts, circa 1815

Embroidered and painted on silk, inscribed in gold lettering on the églomisé mat.

Leon F.S. Stark, Philadelphia, March 20, 1967

American Needlework Treasures: Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection of Betty Ring at the Museum of American Folk Art (p.74, fig. 120)

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Phocion was an Athenian statesman (c. 402-317 BCE).