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WA.OA414 Anonymous, English—Embroidered picture: The Sacrifice of Isaac, dated 1673,©Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

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    P. Mundy, The Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608–1667 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1919), III (1), p. 3.

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    G. Markham, Hunger’s Prevention or the Whole Art of Fowling … (London: A[ugustine] Math[ewes] for Anne Helme and Thomas Langley, 1621) and, for example, recipes in The Whole Duty of a Woman (London: J. Gwillim, 1696).

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  • G. Markham, Hunger’s Prevention or the Whole Art of Fowling (A[ugustine] Math[ewes] for Anne Helme and Thomas Langley, London, 1621)

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Mark Norman, Head of Conservation, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, for radiography and Dr Sonia O’Connor, University of Bradford, for radiographic interpretation.

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Brooks, M.M. (2016). Curious Work. In: Craciun, A., Schaffer, S. (eds) The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-44379-3_3

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