Date
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Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined; fringed
Inscriptions
Inscription: 1842
Dimensions
236.2 × 193 cm (93 × 76 in.); Repeat: 50 × 50 cm (19 3/4 × 19 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Emma Stevens
Reference Number
1914.720
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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), 11 (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), 189.
Art Institute of Chicago, American Coverlets, July 14–Oct. 14, 1973.
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