DOI Heft:
Special winter-number 1896-7
DOI Artikel:White, Gleeson: The sampler: an appreciation and a plea for its revival
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17298#0388
The Sampler
the principles of symmetrical convention ; which
are nevertheless most rigidly obeyed throughout
her design. Not all the forestry which modern
decoration has produced can beat the orchard of
trees and shrubs she has set forth. In this formal
garden no house appears; but at the foot, the
striking figures of Adam and Eve confront you.
Supercilious and haughty in their manner, they
seem rather proud of the serpent than otherwise,
and evidently, as the first-created nobility should be,
are rejoiced to find heraldic animals rushing to do
homage, and obviously ready to take up their posi-
tions as " supporters " thus early in the history of
the world. Except the band immediately below
the declaration of faith which heads the panel, and
possibly in the border, there is little trace of
Oriental motives. But even so cautious a statement
is advanced with diffidence. On turning to some
THE SAMPLER OF ANN HOPE
64
1777
the principles of symmetrical convention ; which
are nevertheless most rigidly obeyed throughout
her design. Not all the forestry which modern
decoration has produced can beat the orchard of
trees and shrubs she has set forth. In this formal
garden no house appears; but at the foot, the
striking figures of Adam and Eve confront you.
Supercilious and haughty in their manner, they
seem rather proud of the serpent than otherwise,
and evidently, as the first-created nobility should be,
are rejoiced to find heraldic animals rushing to do
homage, and obviously ready to take up their posi-
tions as " supporters " thus early in the history of
the world. Except the band immediately below
the declaration of faith which heads the panel, and
possibly in the border, there is little trace of
Oriental motives. But even so cautious a statement
is advanced with diffidence. On turning to some
THE SAMPLER OF ANN HOPE
64
1777