Date
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Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen, wool, silk, horsehair, hemp, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in open buttonhole filling and stem stitches; laid work and couching
Dimensions
207 × 335 cm (81 1/2 × 131 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Women's Board, Wirt D. Walker Endowment, and Lissy Funk Acquisition Fund
Reference Number
1989.414
Extended information about this artwork
“Museum News: Acquisition,” Art Institute of Chicago News and Events (Sept./Oct. 1989): 8.
Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 140-41, 135, 140-41, 149 (Ill.).
Fritz Billeter and Rosina Kuhn, Lissy Funk (Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 1999), 27, pl. 20.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago’s Collection, Feb. 17–May 2, 1993.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Focus on Fiber Art: Selections from the Growing 20th Century Collection, Oct. 6, 1993–Feb. 27, 1994.
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