Bedcover ("Jacobs Ladder" Quilt)

Textiles

19th century

United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Bedcover ("Jacobs Ladder" Quilt)
Place: United States (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.: 1801–1900
Medium: Cotton, plain weaves; pieced; quilted; backed with cotton, plain weave; edged with cotton, plain weave
Dimensions: 190.8 × 186.4 cm (75 1/8 × 73 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Donald Young and Shirley Weese Young
Reference Number: 2009.1020
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Donald Young (died 2012) and Shirley Weese Young, Chicago, by 2009 [acquisition documentation in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2009.

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