Children at Play (Furnishing Fabric)

Textiles

1886/90

Printed and Manufactured by Merrimack Manufacturing Company (United States, founded 1823)
United States, Massachusetts, Lowell

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Merrimack Manufacturing Company (Producer)
Title: Children at Play (Furnishing Fabric)
Place: Massachusetts (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 1886–1890
Medium: Cotton, plain weave; block and engraved roller printed
Inscriptions: Inscription: Merrimack Co.
Dimensions: 66 × 48.2 cm (26 × 19 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 21.4 cm (8 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
Reference Number: 1956.159
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Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 214, no. 169.
Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), pp. 113 (illus.), 148.

Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
The Art Institute of Chicago, American Textiles, May 12–October 31, 1971
The Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Printed Fabrics from the Permanent Collection, August 8, 1981–January 31, 1982
The Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, A Selection of Commemorative Printed Fabrics from the Permanent Collection, August 15–November 15, 1987
The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago’s Collection, February 17–May 2, 1993
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, America the Beautiful: Textiles from the Permanent Collection, Mar. 6–Jul. 21, 1996.

Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland (1881-1978; born Belle McCullough, also Belle Borland), Chicago, by Oct. 1956 [Incoming permanent receipt RX2021 dated Oct. 17, 1956 in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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