- Maker
- Prescott, Ellen
- Date made
- 1827
- Origin
- Unknown
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- Adam and Eve are at the center top panel with trees, dogs, birds. Various cross bands. A two story house with 3 chimneys on the L. In the lower half a centered two story house with 3 chimneys with smoke, trees, flowers, a deer, animals, a man on the L and a woman on the R, a pot of flowers in the center and a flower motif on both sides of the bottom verse. Arcaded border all four sides.
- Inscription
- The Tree of Life which bare twelve manner of / fruits and yielded her fruit every month and / the leaves of the Tree were for the healing of / the nations. Revelations chap 1 vers (In a small center cartouche): Ellen Prescott / her work 1837 / (At the bottom): This Work my Fiends will let yu see / How kind my Parents have been to me //
- Length Without Frame
- 17 3/4"
- Width Without Frame
- 21 1/2"
- Historical Owner
- #52.93.36 Gift of the Monroe & Estelle Hewlett Collection
- Owner
- Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
- Owner Private
- Brooklyn Museum of Art
