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Blackwork Detail of Lady Margaret Butts

Lady Margaret Butts, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1543. Dimensions: 46 × 37 cm, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA.

A closeup view of the blackwork embroidery done on her smock collar. The edge of the frill is also embroidered in black.

This color image from Wikimedia Commons, Lady Margaret Butts [Art] Retrieved November 17, 2006 from the World Wide Web: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Hans_Holbein_d._J._033.jpg
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