Needlework
Adam and
Eve Sampler
"Lucy Goldstraw aged 10 1839," probably England,
the
sampler worked in silk threads on a linen ground with a flowering vine
border surrounding a verse of "Proverbs" over a central depiction of
Adam and Eve flanking the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil with
encircling serpent, over her signature stitches, surrounded by numerous
motifs including flowers, birds, crowns, rampant lions, baskets of
fruit, potted plants, a building, trees, and other animals, (toning,
fading), 20 x 17 in., in a molded curly maple frame.
Provenance: Ex collection of Robert Roche.
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