Coverlet

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

1837

United States, New York, Steuben County, Tyrone

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Department: Textiles

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 1837
Medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined (one width is 1911.93)
Inscriptions: Inscription: Charlotte Vanduzee Tyrone 1837
Dimensions: 211.7 × 174 cm (83 1/4 × 68 1/2 in.); Repeat: 37.3 × 35 cm (14 3/4 × 13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus
Reference Number: 1911.581
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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), 94

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

Frank W. Gunsaulus (1856-1921), Chicago, by 1911 [Davison and Mayer-Thurman 1973, p. 94]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1911.

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