Cut-paper Card with The Lord's Prayer

Martha Anne Honeywell American

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Miss Honeywell could, with amazing skill and precision, embroider, cut, do needlework, write, and draw using her mouth. In this astounding example, Miss Honeywell has created a complicated decorative frame with a microscopic but legible Lord’s Prayer that could fit under a five-cent piece.

Cut-paper Card with The Lord's Prayer, Martha Anne Honeywell (American, Lempster, New Hampshire ca. 1787–1848), Cut-paper and pen

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