Coverlet

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

1840/45

United States, Ohio

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Coverlet
Place: United States (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 1840–1845
Medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; warp and weft fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment
Dimensions: 233.4 × 203 cm (92 1/2 × 80 1/4 in.); Repeat: 57.1 × 45.8 cm (22 1/2 × 18 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus
Reference Number: 1913.496
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Bessie Bennett, “Some American Coverlets; Gunsaulus Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 23, 8 (Nov. 1929): 129.
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), 156, no. 115.

Art Institute of Chicago, American Coverlets, July 14–Oct. 14, 1973.
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, Department of American Art, Gallery 164, June 16–Sept. 7, 2005.

Frank W. Gunsaulus (1856-1921), Chicago, by 1913 [Davison and Mayer-Thurman 1973, p. 156]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1913.

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