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Quilt (Album quilt)
Old Otterbein Church
Category
Textiles (Furnishing)
Creator/Artist/Maker
Old Otterbein Church (Artist)
Place of Origin
Baltimore; Maryland; United States; North America
Materials
- Cotton
- Silk
- Ink
Museum Object Number
1969.0571
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1969.0571
Object Name
Quilt (Album quilt)
Category
Textiles (Furnishing)
Creator (Role)
Old Otterbein Church (Artist)
Place of Origin
Baltimore; Maryland; United States; North America
Materials
- Cotton
- Silk
- Ink
Techniques
- Appliqued
- Quilted
Dimensions (inches)
102.25 (W) x 105.25 (L)
Dimensions (centimeters)
259.715 (W) x 267.335 (L)
Measurement Notes
from Quilts in a Material World List
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Ames, Kenneth L. 1977 Beyond Necessity: Art in the Folk Tradition.
• Published: p. 37, plate III; p.106, cat.no. 3.Book: Peck, Amelia. 1990 American Quilts and Coverlets in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Similar object catalog # 16Book: Davis, Nancy E. 1999 The Baltimore Album Quilt Tradition: Maryland Historical Society.
• Similar objects cat 25, 26, 32; p 68 info on "designer II", similar Bible blocks p 82-89, 122-123Book: Bordes, Marilynn Johnson. 1974 12 Great Quilts from the American Wing.
• Published: Cat 6 [note the note from Marilynn Bordes in the registrar's files]Book: 1971 The Great American Cover-Up: Counterpanes of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art.
• Similar objects: cat 24 and 32Book: Eaton, Linda. 2007 Quilts in a Material World: Selections from the Winterthur Collection.
• Published: Chapter 2, pp. 44-45Book: Weeks, Barbara Knoop & Goldsborough, Jennifer Faulds. 1994 Lavish Legacies : Baltimore Album and Related Quilts in the Collection of the Maryland Historical Society.
• Published: pp 16-21. Similar bible blocks pp 60-61, 96-97, 110-111Book: Swan, Susan Burrows. 1995 Plain and Fancy: American Women and their Needlework, 1650-1850.
• Published: p. 226, fig. 130Book: Swan, Susan Burrows. 1976 A Winterthur Guide to American Needlework.
• Published: p. 94, pl. XIVa