Printed textile
Classification:
Date:
ca.1813
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. ( 36.2 x 26.7 cm )
Description:
Silk block-printed broadside of the eulogy of Commander James Lawrence, with a monument heapiece surrounded by flags and navy emblems, surmounted by a portrait bust; text below; printed in black ink on a white ground.
Credit Line:
Gift of Daniel Parish, Jr., 1904
Object Number:
INV.1206
Marks:
printed: on monument: "SACRED/ to the/ Memory/ of the/ BRAVE/ Jas. Lawrence/ Esquire./ Obt. June A 1813/ AE 31."
printed: all over: "ELEGY,/ IN REMEMBERANCE OF/ JAMES LAWRENCE, ESQUIRE:/ (LATE COMMANDER OF THE UNITED STATES' FRIGATE CHESAPEAKE.)/ SPIRIT
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1813
eMuseum Object ID:
29408
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Printed textile of American flag
Classification:
Date:
1840
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/4 x 9 in. ( 23.5 x 22.9 cm )
Description:
Silk block-printed flag campaign banner with 13 stars; red, blue, and sepia ink on a white ground.
Object Number:
X.84
Marks:
printed: in center: "HARRISON/ &/ REFORM"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
29407
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Handkerchief
Classification:
Date:
1888
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 1/4 x 15 3/4 in. ( 38.7 x 40 cm )
Description:
Printed silk handkerchief with an American flag with 38 stars and a banner; stars in the four corners; printed in red and blue on a white ground.
Object Number:
INV.7322
Marks:
printed: on banner: "PROTECTION TO AMERICAN INDUSTRIES"
Gallery Label:
This kerchief was used in the presidential campaign of Benjamin Harrison in 1888.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 271.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1888
eMuseum Object ID:
29406
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Centennial quilt
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1876
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 80 x 92 1/2 x 1/4 in. ( 203.2 x 235 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Cotton centennial quilt with red, green, brown, blue, and yellow appliqué on white ground; thirty blocks separated by horizontal and vertical red sashing; motifs include basket, harp, dog (on two blocks, in opposite corners), cruciform leaf and flower designs, and crossed American flags with "1776 / 1876" appliquéd below in red.
Object Number:
INV.11448
Marks:
appliquéd: on one interior block: "1776 / 1876"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1876
eMuseum Object ID:
29404
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Printed textile of War of 1812 battles
Classification:
Date:
ca.1815
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 x 31 in. ( 71.1 x 78.7 cm )
Description:
Copperplate-printed cotton kerchief with two oval scenes in the center depicting the Battle at New Orleans and Fort Erie being taken, surrounded by six naval battle scenes and four portraits: Andrew Jackson, Jacob Jennings Brown, William Bainbridge, and Stephan Decatur; laurel leaf background; decorative border; printed in red ink on a white ground.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1967.52
Marks:
printed: all over: "AMERICAN VICTORIES/ UNITED WE STAND DEVIDED WE FALL./ LIBERTY AND/ INDEPENDENCE/ UNITED STATES & MACEDONIAN/ MAJR GEN BROWN/ WASP & FROLIC/ MAJR GENL JACKSON/ ENTERPRISE AND BOXER/ SUCCESS OF OUR BRAVE TARS/ GLORIOUS/ BATTLE AT NEW ORL
Bibliography:
Collins, Herbert Ridgeway. Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1815
eMuseum Object ID:
29400
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Printed cotton drape w/curtain ring
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1783
Medium:
Cotton, linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 88 x 30 x 1 in. ( 223.5 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Cotton copperplate-printed curtain with a personification of America presenting medallions with images of George Washington and his staff to a personification of Liberty on an altar holding a staff topped by a liberty cap, with George Washington being crowned with laurel wreath by a winged-Victory and cupids in clouds above; printed in red on a white ground; linen lining.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1939.6
Marks:
printed: all over: "WASHINGTON AND/ INDEPENDENCE/ AMERICA PRESENTING AT THE/ ALTER OF LIBERTY MEDALLIONS/ OF HER ILLUSTRIOUS SONS/ GEN GATES/ GEN REED/ GEN WASHINGTON/ B. FRANKLIN/ ..."
Gallery Label:
The design of this textile is based upon the following prints: "General Washington" engraved by Valentine Green from the original painting by Trumbull, published in 1781, London; medallion portraits from the drawings of Pierre Eugune du Simitiere and engraved by Benoit Louis Prevost, Burnett Reading, and B.B.E., and published by William Richardson, London 1783 and R. Wilkenson, London 1783; medallion portrait of Franklin from the engraving Heath. The portrait of Adams can not be traced.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1783
eMuseum Object ID:
29398
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pieced quilt square
Classification:
Date:
1800-1850
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 1/8 in. ( 34.3 x 34.3 x 0.3 cm )
Description:
Pieced quilt square with four stylized leaves surrounding small central square; blue and gray striped cotton and red and gray paisley print.
Credit Line:
Gift of W. G. Bowdoin
Object Number:
1940.105n
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
29397
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pieced quilt square
Classification:
Date:
1800-1850
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 x 13 3/4 x 1/8 in. ( 35.6 x 34.9 x 0.3 cm )
Description:
Pieced quilt square with four stylized leaves surrounding small central square; brown cotton with yellow polka dots and multicolored paisley print.
Credit Line:
Gift of W. G. Bowdoin
Object Number:
1940.105L
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
29396
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Printed textile of Lindburgh
Classification:
Date:
1927-1933
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 1/2 x 18 in. ( 69.8 x 45.7 cm )
Description:
Roller-printed cotton textile fragment commemorating Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight from New York to Paris in 1927; portrait of Lindbergh in a winged-garland with a cat; winged medallions of plane leaving New York in daylight, arriving in Paris in darkness, image of a plane over a globe, plane over the coast of California, and the Spirit of St. Louis; printed in green ink on an off-white ground.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Ellouise Baker Larsen
Object Number:
1941.443
Marks:
printed: below medallions: "NEW YORK/ PARIS/ SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS/ NEW YORK TO PARIS IN 33hr 29min/ SAN DIEGO"
Gallery Label:
The cat below the portrait of Lindbergh on this textile represents his kitten, Patsy, that would accompany him on flights. Patsy was not a passenger on Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, however; its stand-in was a toy doll Felix the Cat, the cartoon character.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 418.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1933
eMuseum Object ID:
29395
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pieced quilt square
Classification:
Date:
1800-1850
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 1/8 in. ( 34.3 x 34.3 x 0.3 cm )
Description:
Pieced quilt square with four stylized leaves surrounding small central square; red and white cotton print fabrics.
Credit Line:
Gift of W. G. Bowdoin
Object Number:
1940.105f
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
29394
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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