Coverlet

Textiles

1847

Dennis Cosley (American, 1816–1904)
United States, Ohio, Greene County, Xenia

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Dennis Cosley (Weaver)
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 1847
Medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts (Beiderwand); woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; full loom width; seamless; fringed
Inscriptions: Inscription: Made by D Cosley Xenia Greene County Ohio 1847
Dimensions: 235.2 × 202.9 cm (92 1/2 × 80 in.); Repeat: 41.9 × 35.6 cm (16 1/4 × 14 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Frank D. Carpenter
Reference Number: 1950.94
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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), 170.

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

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, Nov. 9 and Nov. 21, 1949; in curatorial object file]; by descent to her husband, Frank D. Carpenter, Miami, FL, Sept. 19, 1949 [Incoming receipt R9821, Dec. 19, 1949; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

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