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.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Angelica_Kauffman" class="extiw" title="w:en:Angelica Kauffman"><span title="Swiss-Austrian painter (1741-1807)">Angelica Kauffmann</span></a>
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before 1807 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1807-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1807-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University_Art_Museum" class="extiw" title="w:Princeton University Art Museum">Princeton University Art Museum</a>