Coverlet

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Artist

John R. Gebhart (Weaver)

Title

Coverlet

Place

Pennsylvania (Object made in)

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Made 1841

Medium

Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in plain interlacings with extended supplementary patterning weft cut fringe and attached warp-faced plain weave with extended weft cut fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

Inscriptions

Inscription (in mirror image in bottom corner blocks): J.R. GEBHART MAYTOWN LANCASTER CO: 1841 S. DEDWEILER; (in mirror image in upper corners) S. DEDWEILER

Dimensions

253.7 × 224.8 cm (99 7/8 × 88 1/2 in.); Repeat: 42.6 × 37 cm (16 3/4 × 15 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary Elizabeth Johnson

Reference Number

1986.1373

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