Coverlet

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

1851

Jesse Hart (American, 1814-1894)
United States, Ohio, Clinton County, Wilmington

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: James McDougal Hart (Weaver)
Title: Coverlet
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
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 1851
Medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; full loom width; seamless
Inscriptions: Inscription: If good we plant not, vice will fill the place; And rankest weeds the richest soils deface wove by J Hart Wilmington Clinton County Ohio 1851
Dimensions: 229.9 × 198.3 cm (90 1/2 × 78 1/4 in.); Repeat: 48.1 × 48.1 cm (18 7/8 × 16 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus
Reference Number: 1915.519
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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), 176-7.
Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 88-89, cat. 34.

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

Frank W. Gunsaulus (1856-1921), Chicago, by 1915 [Davison and Mayer-Thurman 1973, p. 176]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1915.

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