Coverlet

Textiles

1839

Abram Allen (American, born Irish, c. 1796- after 1860)
United States, Ohio, Clinton County, Wilmington

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Abram Allen (Weaver)
Title: Coverlet
Places: Ohio (Object made in), United States (Object made in)
Date: Made 1839
Medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; full loom width; seamless; fringed
Inscriptions: Inscription: 1839 Ohio
Dimensions: 227.4 × 203.3 cm (99 1/2 × 80 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus
Reference Number: 1917.70
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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), 154-55.

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. 154]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1917.

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