Two Cotton and Wool Jacquard Coverlets

Example 1: natural cotton and blue wool. Inscribed Samuel Meily Mansfield Richland Ohio 1842 Lucina Carpenter. 89 3/4 × 80 1/4 inches.
Example 2: natural cotton and blue and red wool. 86 1/8 × 74 1/8 inches.

Property from the Art Institute of Chicago

Example 1: Gift of Mrs. Newton H. Carpenter

Provenance: Lucina Carpenter, Ohio, 1842 [according to inscription on coverlet and note from donor in curatorial object file]; by descent to her daughter-in-law, Hattie Carpenter (1885–1943; born Lewis; also Mrs. Newton H. Carpenter), by 1918 [Day Book 8, 140; copies in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1918.

Display and Loan History: Art Institute of Chicago, American Coverlets, July 14–Oct. 14, 1973.

Publication History: Mildred Davison, Early American Hand-Woven Coverlets in the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago: A Picture Book (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), 14 (ill.).

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), 165.

Example 2: Purchased with funds provided by Joan G. Rosenberg

Provenance: Kate and Joel Kopp, America Hurrah Antiques, New York, by Mar. 24, 1983 [invoice, Mar. 24, 1983; incoming receipt RX14334, Nov. 7, 1983; copies in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.

Display and Loan History: Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Twenty Years of Textile Society Collecting (1978–1998), Dec. 20, 1997–Mar. 22, 1998. Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, The Woven Coverlet: An Expression of Treasured America, Mar. 1–July 23, 2000

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