Collection Highlights
Kerchief
Date:
1776-1777
Object Number:
1952.63
Medium:
Linen
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Textile fragment
Object Number:
1941.110
Date:
ca. 1876
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/2 x 12 in. ( 14 x 30.5 cm )
Marks:
printed: below portrait: "1776"
printed: on shield: "& PEACE"
Description:
Cotton copperplate-printed textile fragment with a repeating pattern of a medallion portrait of George Washington with "1776" below, surrounded by garlands in sepia ink and alternating with a red and sepia shield with an image of scales "& PEACE."
Gallery Label:
This textile was probably made around the time of the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 191.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
