Coverlet

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Artist

James McDougal Hart (Weaver)

Title

Coverlet

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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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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