Antique Sampler, 1777, Adam & Eve

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13.25ins high by 11.5ins wide

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George III, dated 1777

Description - ID#22093

Antique Sampler, 1777, By LI. The sampler is worked in silk on linen ground, in a variety of stitches. Meandering strawberry border. Colours pale blue, cream, blue, red, green, navy blue, pale green, copper, white, pink, yellow, grey and black. Alphabets A-Z in upper case and numbers 1-13. Verse reads 'Wifdom, the greateft Beauty of the mind,>the nobleft ornament of human kind,>Wifdoms our Safe guard and our guiding Star,>that Stirs up reason When our Senses err'. Signed with initials and dated 'LI 1777'. A wonderful set of motifs, including Adam & Eve standing either side of the tree of life with a snake coiled around its trunk, dogs, birds, flowers, potted flowering plants, trees, laden with fruit, fir trees, blossoming trees, deer and crowns. Framed in an old wood frame with rippled, dimpled, old glass. Tacked to linen with wood and brown paper backing.

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13.25ins high by 11.5ins wide

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George III, dated 1777

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