About This Artwork
Coverlet1848
Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined
219.5 x 191.8 cm (86 3/8 x 75 1/2 in.)
Repeat: 40.6 x 39.6 cm (16 x 15 1/2 in.) Side borders: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.)
Bottom border: 16.2 cm (6 3/4 in.)
Inscription: Woven at the Ithaca Carpet Factory by Archd Davidson 1848 E Pluribus Unum
Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne, 1930.112
Textiles
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "America the Beautiful - Textiles from the Permanent Collection," March 6–July 21, 1996
Publication History
Mildred Davison and Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Coverlets: A Handbook on the Collection of Woven Coverlets in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: 1973), p. 98.