This reproduction of an English
sampler, dated 1819, features an unusual carnation border surrounding bowls
of fruit, and Adam and Eve beneath the Tree of Life, flanked by this
Biblical verse:
And the Lord God commanded
the man saying of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat But of
the tree of the knowledge of Good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in
the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die
Worked entirely in cross stitch
over two threads of 30 count linen, it will measure almost exactly the size
of the original, in the collection of The Scarlet Letter. |