Coverlet

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

1825

Attributed to James Alexander (American, born Irish, 1770–1870)
United States, New York

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: James Alexander
Title: Coverlet
Place: New York (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 1825
Medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on draw loom
Inscriptions: Inscription: Agriculture & Manufactures. Are the Foundation of our Independence. July.4 1825. Gnrl Lafyette M Merritt
Dimensions: 257 × 199.3 cm (101 3/4 × 78 7/8 in.); Repeat: 62.9 × 63.5 cm (24 3/4 × 25 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Chicago Historical Society
Reference Number: 1967.192
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Mildred Davison and Christa C. Mayer-Thurman, Coverlets: A Handbook on the Collection of Woven Coverlets in The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1973), 75, cat. 57.
Madeline Rogers, “Jacquard Coverlets: Where Geneology and Textiles Meet,” American Art & Antiquities (Jan.-Feb. 1979), 56 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, American Coverlets, July 14–Oct. 14, 1973.

Harrison Hopkins, West Bloomfield, NY [this and the following according to personal note from Martha Merene Merritt dated 10/13/1924 in curatorial file]; by descent to his daughter, Harriet Merritt (born Hopkins), Peru, Ill., by 1838; by desent to her daughter Martha Merene Merritt, Peru, Ill. [Davison and Mayer-Thurman 1973, p. 75]; given to the Chicago Historical Society [Chicago History Museum], from 1924 [Incoming receipt Rx5851 dated 2/20/1967 in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1967.

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