Deidamla Swallow (b. 1778, Groton, MA) Fraktur Penmanship Nameplate in Lemon Gold Frame curve The face I love for

The face I love for the gold stripes against black patterning that looks very much like scales

and if this doesn't induce longing to travel

quite sturdy and very sound

there are everything from paintings to prints to Staffordshire figurines depicting the subject in a range of manners--with of course the more naive approaches to the subject the ones I like best

I can't say for certain

Deidamla Swallow (b. 1778, Groton, MA) Fraktur Penmanship Nameplate in Lemon Gold Frame curve The face I love forYou know how much I love fine examples of early penmanship with fancy fraktur lettering, but I love the name Deidamia Swallow at least equally as much! And if my name were Deidamia Swallow, I would most certainly want to hang it proudly on the wall. Executed in black ink, dated February 28, 1811, behind glass in the perfect antique gilded frame. And I have identified Deidamia, born Deidamia Woods on October 28, 1778 in Groton, MA, married to Nahum