The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Quilt, Album pattern

Quilt, Album pattern

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Description

This appliquéd and pieced quilt has a white woven cotton ground, solid red sashing, and designs appliqued primarily in red fabric in the blocks. Some blocks include solid blue-green and green cottons. The swag border is made of red calico. The white woven cotton binding is machine stitched. The blocks are diamond quilted, the swag border is quilted in curves that follow the swags, and the sashing is quilted with parallel lines of stitching.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: signed in ink on individual blocks: Miss Sarah Pollock, Mrs. Humphrey, Elizabeth Boice, Maria Husted, Susan Adriana Monfort, Miss Malinda Brewer, Miss Jane Rapalje, Mrs. E. Bogardus, H.E. Monfort, A. [?], Mrs. Thos. Adriance, Miss Annie [?] Clapp, Elizabeth Van Wyck
See also
Who
First Reform Churches of Fishkill Hopewell (1)
What
Textiles (32,752)

Cotton (11,987)

Bed coverings (242)

Bedcovers (240)

Quilts (122)
Where
North and Central America (81,404)

United States (78,109)

New York (2,785)
When
A.D. 1800-1900 (80,185)
In the Museum
American Decorative Arts (11,825)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
American Quilts and Coverlets

The Materials and Techniques of American Quilts and Coverlets

The United States and Canada, 1800–1900 A.D.
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