AN EARLY VICTORIAN FOLK ART NEEDLWORK 'ADAM AND EVE' SAMPLER

AN EARLY VICTORIAN FOLK ART NEEDLWORK 'ADAM AND EVE' SAMPLER

BY ELLEN SADLER, POSSIBLY SCOTTISH

worked with coloured wools on a linen ground, with Adam and Eve flanking the Tree of Knowledge, with various initials and a floral border, signed and dated 'Ellen Sadler Aged 16 Feb. 3. 1839', in a later glazed ebonised frame

29 x 29.5cm

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.135 for a discussion of this sampler.