A GEORGE III FOLK ART NEEDLEWORK PARADISE LOST SAMPLER ANONYMOUS, C.1800 worked with coloured wools...

A GEORGE III FOLK ART NEEDLEWORK PARADISE LOST SAMPLER ANONYMOUS, C.1800 worked with coloured wools on a linen ground, with Adam and Eve with the Tree of Knowledge, titled 'Paradise Lost' and with Christ on the cross, titled 'Paradise Regained' with angels and stars, signed with initials 'A H', in a glazed ebonised frame 24 x 22.6cm 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.