Handkerchief

Textiles

c. 1876

Manufactured by A. & C. Cramer (German, active about 1876)
Germany, Düsseldorf

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: A. & C. Cramer (Manufacturer)
Title: Handkerchief
Place: Düsseldorf (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1875–1880
Medium: Cotton, plain weave; roller and engraved roller printed
Inscriptions: Inscriptions: (top center): "E Pluribus Unum" / "Centennial International" / (bottom center): "Exhibition" / "Fairmount Park" / "Philadelphia" / "1776 1876" / "Memorial Hall" / "Art Gallery" / (at corners): "Main Exhibition Building" / "The Machinery Hall" / "The Agricultural Hall" / "The Horticultural Hall" / (at lower left edge): "A & C Cram[w]er in Düsseldorf"
Dimensions: 67.3 × 66.7 cm (26 1/2 × 26 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Sander Allen in memory of Cecil E. Barger, agricultural advertising and marketing authority
Reference Number: 1995.389
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Gift, Bequest and Purchase: A Selection of Textile Acquisitions from 1993–1997, April 22–July 26, 1998
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 141, “Commemorative Events on Cloth,” May 6–July 16, 2006

Cora Ginsburg, New York, by Nov. 13, 1995 [invoice no. 3268, inventory no. SN76, Nov. 13, 1995; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995.

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