Sunday Lessons. No. 1.
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1850-1855
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 x 11 3/8 in. ( 30.5 x 28.9 cm )
Description:
Cotton copper-engraved kerchief titled "Sunday Lessons. No. 1." with six religious children's poems and three vignettes; the vignettes are across the top, the poems are divided into three columns below, two poems in each column; decorative border; printed in blue ink on a white ground.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.604
Marks:
printed: all over: "SUNDAY LESSONS. No. 1. / COUNT THAT DAY LOST, WHOSE SLOW DESCENDING SUN, VIEWS FROM THY HAND NO WORK OF GOODNESS DONE. / CHILDREN"S PRAYER./ ... / THE SABBATH./ ... / MARY'S LAMB. / .../ PRAISE./ ... / RELIGION- WHAT IS IT?/ .../ LORD'
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
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 134.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
28472
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Painted textile of woman and pear tree
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1800-1840
Medium:
Velvet
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 5/8 x 26 in. ( 52.4 x 66 cm )
Description:
Theorem painting on velvet of a landscape with two women beneath a pear tree and a house in the background; painted with blue, green, sepia, yellow and black paint on a white ground.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1235
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:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
28470
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Printed textile of Centennial Exhibition
Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1800-1840
Medium:
Velvet
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 8 in. ( 17.8 x 20.3 cm )
Description:
Theorem painting on velvet; garland of moss roses and leaves painted in sepia, indigo, and tan on a white ground.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.348
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:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
28467
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
painting of fruit basket
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1800-1840
Medium:
Velvet
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/8 x 7 1/2 in. ( 23.2 x 19 cm )
Description:
Theorem painting on velvet; plate of fruit and leaves with a knife; painted with blue, indigo, sepia, black, and green on a white ground.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.350
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:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
28466
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Plate
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1850
Medium:
Iron, tin
Dimensions:
Overall: 1/4 x 5 5/8 in. ( 0.6 x 14.3 cm )
Description:
Tinned sheet iron plate with rolled rim and letters of the alphabet stamped on brim; at center, stamped image of two women reading newspaper with "LIBERTY" on masthead.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
INV.9729
Marks:
Nadelman collection sticker: "214 / Amer"
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:
28451
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Needlework
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1822
Medium:
Paper, silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 1/4 x 7 7/8 in. ( 21 x 20 cm )
Description:
Nearly square embroidered picture of various colors of silk floss on layers of paper, plain paper ground with newspapers on reverse; Pennsylvania-German style flowers in basket; stitches include satin, straight, chain, outline, cross.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
INV.1079
Gallery Label:
The embroidery is stitched to several layers of German language newspapers dated 1822, which include Pennsylvania place names such as Harrisburg and Lebanon.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1822
eMuseum Object ID:
28438
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tramp art box
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1885-1890
Medium:
Wood (formerly a cigar box, probably cedar), metal, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 3/8 x 12 x 6 1/2 in. ( 16.2 x 30.5 x 16.5 cm )
Description:
Chip-carved wooden (tramp art) box with four faceted and stepped sides including hinged lid with back panel and inside of lid advertising cigar maker; reddish exterior.
Credit Line:
Gift of Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1938.374
Marks:
painted: on back image of cuffed male's hand holding smoking cigar with "TRADE MARK" at cuff's edge
printed: and ingrained under lid: "LEWYN AND MARTIN'S/A. 1./CIGARS" with same trademark smoking hand
Gallery Label:
This box is an example of "Tramp art," which was produced in the United States from 1875 to 1930 by itinerant, largely anonymous makers. Items were made out of old cigar boxes and fruit and vegetable crates, with chip-carved edges and layering.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
28434
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Scottish Highlander
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1824
Medium:
Red, yellow, black and green painted and carved wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 46 3/4 x 13 x 10 1/4 in. ( 118.7 x 33 x 26 cm )
Description:
Carved and painted male figure in Scottish Highland dress, including kilt, sporran, and argyle socks, and wearing headdress of tobacco leaves. Figure stasnds on rocky base and holds a snuff pouch in his left hand.
Credit Line:
Gift of Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1938.323
Marks:
Carved in wood at lower left: "W. Allan / Sculp / 1824"
Gallery Label:
The Highlander, typically associated with snuff, was a common type of English shop figure during the nineteenth century. Charles Dickens described one in his novel Little Dorrit: "The business was of too modest a character to support a life-sized Highlander, but it maintained a little one on a bracket on the door-post, who looked like a fallen Cherub that had found it necessary to take to a kilt." The size of this example suggests it was intended to be placed on a counter rather than in front of a shop.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1824
eMuseum Object ID:
28430
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Quilt
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1835-1855
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 79 1/2 x 80 x 1/2 in. ( 201.9 x 203.2 x 1.3 cm )
Description:
Cotton quilt with multi-colored Sunburst pattern; diamond-shaped patchwork pieces radiate out from a central eight-pointed star to create an overall octagonal design within an inner square with appliquéd sawtooth border and appliquéd loop and stars at each corner; edge with border of appliquéd loops and stars, with a leaf appliquéd at each corner.
Credit Line:
Gift of Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1939.5
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:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
28416
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Coverlet fragment
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1800-1850
Medium:
Wool, cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 89 1/4 x 37 1/4 x 1/4 in. ( 226.7 x 94.6 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Overshot wool and cotton coverlet fragment (half of coverlet); plaid checkerboard pattern in blue, gold, and beige.
Credit Line:
Gift of Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1939.3
Gallery Label:
The "overshot" weaving technique was one commonly used in the early nineteenth century. The term refers to the long passes of supplementary wool weft that overshoot the surface of the plain weave foundation and form the geometric pattern (see "American Quilts and Coverlets in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," p. 137).
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
28412
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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