Collection Highlights
Grenadier cap
Date:
1740-1770
Object Number:
1890.3
Medium:
Wool, linen
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Textile fragment
Object Number:
X.61
Date:
ca. 1830
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 48 x 24 in. ( 121.9 x 61 cm )
Marks:
printed: around medallion: "SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE ARMY & NAVY * PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FROM MARCH 4 1829 T0"
printed:
Description:
Roller-printed cotton textile fragment with a central portrait medallion of Andrew Jackson with an American bald eagle to his right, a frigate (U.S.S. Constitution) to his left, and portraits of the first six presidents of the United States below; all on a ground of clouds; printed in blue ink on a white ground.
Gallery Label:
This textile was adapted from an earlier French toile with the inscription, "Les Presidents des Etats-Unis". The French version includes the eagle, but the frigate and Jackson are not printed.
Bibliography:
Collins, Herbert Ridgeway. Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979.
Montgomery, Florence M. Printed Textiles: English and American Cottons and Linens, 1700-1850. New York: Viking, 1970.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
