Bedcover Depicting Thirty-four Scenes from the Old and New Testaments

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

1880s

United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Bedcover Depicting Thirty-four Scenes from the Old and New Testaments
Place: United States (Object made in)
Date: Made 1880–1889
Medium: Wool, plain weave; fulled; appliquéd with silk and cotton, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; some stamped; some embroidered with silk yarns in cross, overcast, running, double running, satin, and single satin stitches; couching; edged with silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet
Dimensions: 195.3 × 189.8 cm (76 7/8 × 74 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor
Reference Number: 1987.149
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Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1986-87, 27.

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Gift, Bequest and Purchase: A Selection of Textile Acquisitions from 1982–1987, Mar. 18–Aug. 14, 1989.
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.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, An International Collection of Appliquéd, Embroidered and Pieced Bedcoverings, Feb. 28–May 28, 2001

Cora Ginsburg, Tarrytown, NY, by Mar. 2, 1987 [Invoice, no. 6553, Mar. 2, 1987; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1987.

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