PROBABLY NEW YORK, DATED 1786

This piece is similar to a group of Biblical needleworks from New York characterized as Adam and Eve samplers. Several motifs typical of these needleworks are Eve depicted with hair falling below an arm raised toward the Tree of Life, Adam and Eve both wearing similar dress and comparable fruiting trees with coiled serpent. Related works are illustrated in Ring, Girlhood Embroidery American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework 1650-1850 (New York, 1993), figs. 318-325 and one was sold at Sotheby's New York, 21 November 1980, lot 791.