Coverlet

Textiles

1846

United States, Ohio

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Coverlet
Place: Ohio (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 1846
Medium: Wool and cotton, plain weave double cloth; main warp and ground weft cut fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined
Inscriptions: Inscription: Capitol in Washington 1846
Dimensions: 235.5 × 207.2 cm (93 3/4 × 81 5/8 in.); Repeat: 163.2 × 80.4 cm (64 1/4 × 31 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Frank D. Carpenter
Reference Number: 1950.1583
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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), 164, cat. 121.

Art Institute of Chicago, American Coverlets, July 14–Oct. 14, 1973.
Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Coverlets from the Permanent Collection, Apr. 4–July 5, 1981.
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, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, America the Beautiful: Textiles from the Permanent Collection, Mar. 6–July 21, 1996.

Harriet B. Carpenter (also Mrs. Frank D. Carpenter, died Sept. 19, 1949), Chicago, then Miami, FL [this and the following according to letter from F.D. Carpenter to Mildred Davison, Dec. 18, 1949; in curatorial object file]; by descent to her husband, Frank D. Carpenter, Miami, FL, Sept. 19, 1949 [incoming receipt R9994, June 9, 1950]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

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