Coverlet

Textiles

1834

Attributed to David D. Haring (American, 1800–1889)
United States, New Jersey, Bergen County, West Norwood or New York, Rockland County, Tappan

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Department: Textiles

Artist: David D. Haring (Weaver)
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 1834
Medium: Linen and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined
Inscriptions: Inscription: Matilda Terheun 1834
Dimensions: 250 × 192.8 cm (98 3/8 × 75 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus
Reference Number: 1911.227
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“Collection of American Coverlets,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 4, 4 (Apr. 1911): 62 (discussed; not illustrated).
Bessie Bennett, “Some American Coverlets; “Gunsaulus Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 23, 8 (Nov. 1929): 128.
Mildred Davison, Early American Hand-Woven Coverlets in the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago: A Picture Book (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), 7 (ill.).
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), 146-7.

Art Institute of Chicago, American Coverlets, July 14–Oct. 14, 1973.
Art Institute of Chicago, Coverlets from the Permanent Collection, Apr. 4- July 5 1981.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, The American Bed and Its Coverings, Nov. 21, 1990–Mar. 31, 1991.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, America the Beautiful: Textiles from the Permanent Collection, Mar. 6–July 21, 1996.

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, 147]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1911.

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