Bedspread

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Bedspread
Datec. 1830
Fabric made inGreat Britain
Made inUnited States
MediumTabby-weave cotton
Dimensions105 × 101 15/16 in. (266.7 × 259cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of the estate of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.76.73
Non exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Technical notes and description: Of single-bed proportion and with deep drops, this glazed roller- and block-printed, quilted spread features floral bands related to the pillar prints of the same era. In reds, greens, and brown on a white ground, the design features an ostrichlike bird. The fabric is typical of the many roller-printed fabrics made in Great Britain in the early nineteenth century. The quilting is a series of diagonal lines. Raw seams are finished with a polychrome twilled tape.

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.


ProvenanceMiss Ima Hogg; Estate of Miss Ima Hogg, 1975; given to MFAH, 1976
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed center top, cross-stitched:TW
Stamped, center top: T. Wilson

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