Quilt
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1825-1850
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 89 x 74 x 1/2 in. ( 226.1 x 188 x 1.3 cm )
Description:
Cotton quilt with center composed of red and green printed square pieces and plain white (now discolored) square pieces within printed floral border; center with diamond pattern of stairway squares ("Triple Irish Chain") quilted with hearts, flowers, and pineapples; pieced, plain cotton backing and tape loom binding surrounding edge.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.936
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
20489
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Quilt
Classification:
Date:
1825-1840
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 82 x 82 x 1/2 in. ( 208.3 x 208.3 x 1.3 cm )
Description:
White cotton stuffed quilt composed of 25 blocks, some with pineapples, some with circular feather wreaths, and some with stylized floral motifs; diamond-quilted sawtooth border and narrow fringe on all sides.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Sandford Dwight Foot
Object Number:
1941.920
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, the maker of this quilt was the maternal grandmother of the donor.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
20488
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Crib quilt
Classification:
Date:
1846
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 39 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 1/4 in. ( 100.3 x 80 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Pieced cotton quilt with front composed of rectangular and triangular white, floral printed, and other patterned pieces; two squares appliquéd with cluster of hexagonal pieces; one-piece white (now badly discolored) cotton backing.
Credit Line:
Gift of John Babcock Morris, Jr.
Object Number:
1941.745
Marks:
embroidered: on edge of reverse: "Made by J- B- M- at 7 y's"
handwritten in pencil: adjacent to embroidered inscription: "1846"
Gallery Label:
According to the donor, his father, John Babcock Morris, Sr. (1839-1922), made this quilt when he was seven years old.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1846
eMuseum Object ID:
20487
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Quilt
Classification:
Date:
1850-1860
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 80 x 80 x 1/4 in. ( 203.2 x 203.2 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Cotton quilt composed of sixteen blocks, each with cruciform motif appliquéd in red or green calico on white ground ("lobster pattern"); red calico binding.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Charles Stone Voorhies and Miss Arlene Brooks Voorhies
Object Number:
1942.133
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
20486
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Commemorative ribbon
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1848
Medium:
cloth,
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/2 x 2 1/2 x in. ( 14 x 6.4 x 0 cm )
Description:
Cream-colored rectangular ribbon printed with text and a rectangular portrait of Adams in black ink in the center. Above the portrait, "JOHN QUINCY ADANS./Born in Massachusetts July 11th 1767./Died in the Capitol in Washington Feb. 23d 1848/Aged 81 Years." is printed. Below the portrait, "In his public character/He was of untiring industry and unbending integrity./In his private character/He was generous and exceeding good nature:/He loved his Country with a sincerity/Which seemed to distinguish him from all mankind./His fame is so blended within the hearts of his Countrymen/that it will live when all the frail monuments of art/shall have crumbled into dust."
Object Number:
INV.2565
Inscriptions:
Below portrait: "Sold by Edwd P. Whaites, cor. Cortlandt St.&Broadway."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1848
eMuseum Object ID:
20429
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Needlework bookmark: God Bless Our Home
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Silk, wool, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 7/8 x 10 1/2 x 1/8 in. ( 4.8 x 26.7 x 0.3 cm )
Part (perforated paper): 1 7/8 x 8 3/8 in. (4.8 x 21.3 cm)
Description:
Horizontally oriented red silk ribbon bookmark with pre-printed perforated paper embroidery applied with cross stitching, various colors of wool yarn,
with motto and geometric and floral designs.
Object Number:
INV.12007
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
20155
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Towel
Classification:
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Linen
Dimensions:
with fringe: 45 x 18 1/2 in. ( 114.3 x 47 cm )
Description:
Off-white linen terry towel with flat weave ends with red and white stripes and narrow fringe.
Object Number:
INV.14610c
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
20046
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Towel
Classification:
Date:
1790-1820
Medium:
Linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 49 x 24 1/2 in. ( 124.5 x 62.2 cm )
Description:
White linen towel with woven diamond pattern; initial "L" embroidered in red in one corner.
Object Number:
INV.14610d
Marks:
Identification: embroidered in one corner of obverse: "L"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
20042
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Campaign ribbon
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1865
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/2 x 1 11/16 in. ( 19 x 4.3 cm )
Description:
Polychrome jaquard woven silk ribbon with portrait of General U.S. Grant at center; inscription "RICHMOND/1865/Vicksburg/Fort Donelson/GENERAL U.S. GRANT./"I will fight it out/on this line"; image of eagle withing circular medallion surrounded by American flags and Union army standards below; lower edge folded to form triangle with purple silk thread tassel attached below.
Object Number:
INV.6707
Marks:
Inscription: reverse of ribbon, lower edge, woven in black: "COVENTRY/T.STEVENS"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1865
eMuseum Object ID:
20031
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Whistle
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1830
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 17 1/4 x 20 1/2 in. ( 43.8 x 52.1 cm )
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton kerchief with Benjamin Franklin and children in a sitting room with a whistle, above the story in three columns; printed in sepia ink on a natural ground; decorative border.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1950.305
Marks:
printed: at bottom: "When I saw any one fond of popularity/ constantly employing himself in political/ bustles, neglecting his own affairs and/ ruining them by that neglect: He pays/ indeed says I, for his whistle./..."
Gallery Label:
In a 1779 letter to his intimate friend Madame Brillon (Anne-Louise d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy, 1744-1824) , Franklin told the story of how, as a child, he paid too much money for a whistle. He related how people often "give too much for their whistles." "In short," he wrote, "I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things." In the early 19th century, Franklin's story of "The Whistle" became a popular cautionary tale used to instill moral values in children.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
19950
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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