Two Cotton and Wool Jacquard Coverlets

Example 1: natural cotton and blue wool. Circa 1840-1845, Ohio. 76 1/8 × 66 1/2 inches.

Example 2: natural cotton and blue wool. Inscribed Made by W Fasig Clark Co Illi's US 1858. 91 1/4 × 73 5/8 inches.

"William Fasig was born in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1801. In 1824 he moved to Wayne County, Ohio, and in 1834 to Richland County, where he remained until 1847. After a short time in Missouri, he went to Clark, County, Illinois, and settled near Martinsville. He was a brick layer and farmer as well as a weaver, laying brick in the fall and farming in the summer. He married Elizabeth Hibschman (1803-1882) of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania." 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), 216, cat. 149.

Property from the Art Institute of Chicago

Gift of the Chicago Historical Society

Provenance: Mrs. Emmons Blaine [Davison and Mayer-Thurman 1973, 159]; given to the Chicago Historical Society (later the Chicago History Museum), by 1967 [incoming receipt RX5851, Feb. 20, 1967; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1967.

Display and Loan History: Art Institute of Chicago, American Coverlets, July 14–Oct. 14, 1973. Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Coverlets from the Permanent Collection, Apr. 4–July 5, 1981. 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.

Publication History: 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), 159, cat. 116.

Example 2: given to the Art Institute of Chicago by Mrs. Howell B. Erminger, Jr. (1886–1984), 1972.

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

Nancy Iona Glick, Katherine H. Molumby, and Kristan H. McKinsey, Jacquard Coverlets and Weavers: End of a Legacy (Lakeview, IL: Lakeview Museum of Arts Science, 1999), 58, no. 26.

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