About This Artwork
Woven by Jesse Hart
American
United States, Ohio, Clinton County, Wilmington
Coverlet1851
Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; full loom width; seamless
229.9 x 198.3 cm (90 1/2 x 78 1/4 in.)
Repeat: 48.1 x 48.1 cm (18 7/8 x 16 3/8 in.)
Inscription: If good we plant not, vice will fill the place; And rankest weeds the richest soils deface wove by J Hart Wilmington Clinton County Ohio 1851
Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, 1915.519
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. 176-7.
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), pp. 88-89, cat. 34.