About This Artwork

Designed by Alexander Morton
Scottish, 1844–1921
Produced by Alexander Morton and Company, 1869/70–1906
Scotland, Darvel

Panel, 1885/90

Silk, cotton and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, satin weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts
248.1 x 129.5 cm (97 5/8 x 51 in.)
Repeat: 103.3 x 64.2 cm (40 5/8 x 25 1/4 in.)
Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment, 1988.106

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century," September 27, 1989–January 22, 1990

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Revival and Reform: A Growing 19th Century Textile Collection," November 25, 1998–February 28, 1999

Publication History

The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1987-88. p. 33.

Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), pp. 100, 102, 147.




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