A GEORGE III FOLK ART NEEDLEWORK PARADISE LOST SAMPLER

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.