A LARGE GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK ADAM AND EVE SAMPLER

A LARGE GEORGE IV NEEDLEWORK ADAM AND EVE SAMPLER

BY ANN AINSWORTH

worked with polychrome silks on a linen ground in satin, split, stem and cross stitch, depicting Adam and Eve casually relaxing under the Tree of Knowledge full of apples, with a serpent dangling over Adam's head, signed and dated 'Ann Ainsworth's Work Aged 10. 1820', in a glazed bird's eye maple frame

53 x 42cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.134 for a discussion of this sampler.