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| AVICA TAYLOR WICKERS 1844. THE QUEENS PALACE. |
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A wonderful sampler depicting the Queen's Palace, but in fact its the Queens House, a former royal residence in the London borough of Greenwich, which presently serves as a public art gallery. It was built between 1616 and 1635 on the grounds of the now demolished Greenwich Palace, a few miles downriver from the City of London. In its current setting, it forms a central focus of the Old Royal Naval College with a grand vista leading to the River Thames. Also depicted a large Stagg,( interestingly Greenwich park, behind the house was originally a hunting park for Henry VIII) and a large potted plant.
Avica was baptised 15.8.1830 the daughter of Thomas Taylor & Hannah Wickens of Flichling, Mayfield Sussex. In 1851 she was listed as a seamstress and by 1861 she had progressed to a dressmaker. On 17.9.1861 she married Benjamin Buss of Hooper's Farm, Mayfield. She died aged only 42 in September 1872. |
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