A SILK AND WOOL PICTORIAL SAMPLER ON LINEN
WROUGHT BY CATHERINE MILLER, PROBABLY ENGLISH, DATED 1791
inscribed not eat not taste not touch nor cast an eye upon the fruit of this fair tree and why why eates/ thou, not what Heaven ordaind For food or canst thou think that bad which Heaven call good/ be thou faithful/ unto death and I/ will give a crown of life and signed and dated Catherine Miller/ work done in the/ Year 1791
16 1/4 in. high, 20 1/4 in. wide
A SILK AND WOOL PICTORIAL SAMPLER ON LINEN
WROUGHT BY CATHERINE MILLER, PROBABLY ENGLISH, DATED 1791
inscribed not eat not taste not touch nor cast an eye upon the fruit of this fair tree and why why eates/ thou, not what Heaven ordaind For food or canst thou think that bad which Heaven call good/ be thou faithful/ unto death and I/ will give a crown of life and signed and dated Catherine Miller/ work done in the/ Year 1791
16 1/4 in. high, 20 1/4 in. wide