Adam And Eve Gallery

Banner and poem, c15th century, (1840)

Banner and poem, c15th century, (1840). Facsimile of a banner attributed to St Edmund, king of the West Saxons (841-870 AD), and a poetical description of the devices represented upon them, composed by John Lydgate (1370-1450). Illustration from Historical and Literary Curiosities consisting of Fac-similies of Original Documents, by Charles John Smith, (Henry G Bohn, London, 1840)

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The Garden of Eden, 1629, (1944). Creator: Unknown

The Garden of Eden, 1629, (1944). Adam and Eve are dwarfed by large flowers and plants, with a river, fruit trees, and the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary behind. Title page from "Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris" (Park-in-Sun's Terrestrial Paradise) by apothecary John Parkinson. The full title is Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers: which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp : with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sause vsed with vs : and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land : together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues'. Published in "English Gardens", by Harry Roberts. [Collins, London, 1944]

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Adam kneels in grief beside the body of Abel, while Cain flees in the background, ca

Adam kneels in grief beside the body of Abel, while Cain flees in the background, ca. 1729

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