Sunday 10 September 2023

Adam and Eve

Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, ed. by Henry Festing Jones (London: Jonathan Cape, 1930), p. 243:

A little boy and a little girl were looking at a picture of Adam and Eve.
“Which is Adam and which is Eve?” said one.
“I do not know,” said the other, “but I could tell if they had their clothes on.”

Jan Brueghel the Elder - The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man


Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625) / Peter Paul Rubens  (1577–1640), The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (Mauritshuis)