About This Artwork
United States, Ohio, Chesterville
Coverlet1853
Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound by main warps in plain interlacings with main warp and supplementary patterning weft fringe
250.8 x 209 cm (98 7/8 x 82 1/4 in.)
Centerfield repeat: 44.5 x 38.2 cm (17 1/2 x 15 in.)
Inscription: Manufactured expressly for 1853 Chesterville Ohio 1853
Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, 1911.225
Textiles
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "American Coverlets," July 14–October 14, 1973
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), pp. 178-9.
Sumpter Priddy, "American Fancy: Exuberance in the Arts, 1790-1840", Milwaukee: Milwuakee Art Museum (2004), p. 202.
Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, "For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago," (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 13, fig. 6.