Coverlet

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Textiles

1853

Chesterville, Ohio, United States

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Department: Textiles

Title: Coverlet
Place: Ohio (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 1853
Medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound by main warps in plain interlacings with main warp and supplementary patterning weft fringe
Inscriptions: Inscription: Manufactured expressly for 1853 Chesterville Ohio 1853
Dimensions: 250.8 × 209 cm (98 7/8 × 82 1/4 in.); Centerfield repeat: 44.5 × 38.2 cm (17 1/2 × 15 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus
Reference Number: 1911.225
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“Collection of American Coverlets,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 4, 4 (Apr. 1911): 62 (discussed; not illustrated).
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), 178-9.
Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012), 12-13, fig. 6 (ill).

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

Frances Smalley Babbitt (1847–1929), Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, MI [note in curatorial file dated 5/9/1984]; sold to Frank W. Gunsaulus (1856-1921), Chicago, by 1911 [Ledger Book 1900–1913 in curatorial file; Davison and Mayer-Thurman 1973, 178-79]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1911.

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