- Maker
- Richards, Sarah Jane
- Date made
- 1874
- Origin
- US
- Stitches
- Cross,
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- Adam and Eve stand beneath the Tree of Knowledge at the center bottom of this sampler. A basket of flowers, flowering plant and other very small motifs on L and R. Reversing arcaded strawberry border up both sides and across the top.
- Inscription
- And out of the ground made the / Lord God to grow every tree / That is pleasant to the sight and / Good for food the tree of life also / In the midst of the garden and the / Tree of knowledge of good and evil ........ Sarah Jane Richards / Her work 1874 //
- Historical Owner
- LM 2001.005
- Owner
- Loudoun Museum, Leesburg, VA
- Owner Private
- Loudoun Museum