A sampler by Hannah Gray worked in red, pink, yellow and green coloured silks in cross stitch with floral and tree spot motifs bordering a verse worked in black silks, "The voice of my Beloved sounds", the lower third with "The tree of Paradise" and Adam and Eve figures, one plucking a fruit from the tree, flanked by a pair of angels blowing trumpets, within a small border of stylised strawberries--16 x 22in. (40 x 54cm.), framed and glazed, circa 1820-30