Coverlet

Textiles

1825/30

United States, Pennsylvania

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Department: Textiles

Title: Coverlet
Place: Pennsylvania (Object made in)
Date: Made 1825–1830
Medium: Cotton and wool, point twill weave (multiple shaft); warp and weft fringe; one loom width (half of a coverlet)
Dimensions: 212.3 × 95.2 cm (83 1/2 × 37 1/2 in.); Repeat: 20.5 × 21 cm (8 1/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. John R. Rowe
Reference Number: 1957.185
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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), 48, cat. 35.

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

Mrs. John R. Rowe, Western Springs, IL, by 1957 [incoming receipt RX2121, Feb. 25, 1957, in curatorial object file, Textiles Department]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1957.

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