CIRCA 1660-70

Details

A CHARLES II NEEDLEWORK PICTURE DEPICTING ADAM AND EVE
CIRCA 1660-70
Both beneath a tree bearing fruit, within a flower-strewn landscape, surrounded by animals, the ground worked in counted stitch, embellished with gilt metal thread
9.8 x 16.7 in. (25 x 42.5 cm.)
later framed and glazed

Provenance

An Important Collection of Needlework, The Richmond Collection, Christie's, South Kensington, 23 June 1987, lot 94

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Lot Essay

A possible print source for this needlework picture is Bernard Solomon's illustration of the Temptation of Adam and Eve in Claude Paradin's verse picture book of the bible Quadrins de la Bible, The True and Lyvely Historryke Purtreatures of the Vvoll Bible, Lyon, 1553. For a similar example see Mary M. Brooks, English Embroideriers, Ashmolean Handbooks, Catalogue no. 2., p. 29.

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