Coverlet

Textiles

1838

David Isaac Grave (American, c. 1803-1864)
United States, Indiana, Wayne County, Richmond

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: David Isaac Grave (Weaver)
Title: Coverlet
Places: Wayne County (Object made in:), Indiana (Object made in:), United States (Object made in:)
Date: Made 1838
Medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined; fringed
Inscriptions: Inscription: JM By DIG 1838
Dimensions: 257.7 × 210.6 cm (94 3/4 × 83 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus
Reference Number: 1917.67
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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), 184.

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

Frank W. Gunsaulus (1856-1921), Chicago, by 1917 [Davison and Christa C. Mayer-Thurman 1973, p. 184]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1917.

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