English beadwork with Adam and Eve and other motifs

An image of Picture/Beadwork embroidery. Adam and Eve and other pictorial motifs. With Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and the Sacrifice of Isaac, plus popular embroidery motifs. Discoloured white silk, embroidered with coloured beads, height 45.7 cm, width 71.1 cm, 1625-1675. English.

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Picture/Beadwork embroidery. Adam and Eve and other pictorial motifs. With Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and the Sacrifice of Isaac, plus popular embroidery motifs. Discoloured white silk, embroidered with coloured beads, height 45.7 cm, width 71.1 cm, 1625-1675. English.

Image data

Accession Number: T.20-1945
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Image Library
Image height: 667 pixels
Image width: 1023 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 283.46kB
Captured: 2007:11:30 11:49:40

Key words

17th Century Adam and Eve animal animals beaded beading beads beadwork biblical birds Cain and Abel Eden embroidered embroidery English Fitz_AA Garden of Eden Isaac mermaid Old Testament paradise religion religious Restoration sacrifice of Isaac serpent silk snake stitched stitches stitching Temptation of Adam textile unicorn

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025)
            "English beadwork with Adam and Eve and other motifs"
            Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-207562 Accessed: 2025-12-07 18:49:35

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-207562
            |title=English beadwork with Adam and Eve and other motifs
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-07 18:49:35|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-207562

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/large_T_20_1945_srgb_dc2.jpg"
        alt="The Temptation, Cain killing Abel and the Sacrifice of Abraham"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">English beadwork with Adam and Eve and other motifs</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>