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Baltimore Album Quilt

Baltimore Album Quilt

1847
Object PlaceBaltimore, Maryland, USA
Medium/TechniqueAppliqued and embroiderd cotton plain weave top, cotton plain weave back, cotton twill binding; quilted; ink
DimensionsHeight x width: 210.8 x 186.7 cm (83 x 73 1/2 in.)
Credit LineMary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund, Frank B. Bemis Fund, Elizabeth M. and John F. Paramino Fund in memory of John F. Paramino, Boston Sculptor, Helen B. Sweeney Fund, Textile Income Purchase Fund, Mary L. Smith Fund, Joyce Arnold Rusoff Fund, and Alice J. Morse Fund
Accession number2013.72
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ClassificationsTextiles
InscriptionsWritten in ink are the names: "Georgina Eltonhead 1847" "Martha J. Riley" "Maria L. Riley" and "Mary E. Riley".
Provenance1847, made for Georgianna Eltonhead (b. 1822 - d.1910), VA; between 1847 and about 1955, given by inheritance within family; about 1955*, sold to Florence Peto (b. 1881 - d. 1970); 1969 sold by Peto to Florence Maine, Ridgefield, CT; before 1999, sold by Maine to a private collector, PA; January 16, 1999, sold at auction at Sotheby’s, New York; 2000, acquired by Gerald E. Roy, Warner, NH; 2013, sold by Roy to the MFA. (Accession date: February 27, 2013)

*1955 Peto lent the quilt to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan; two years later it was lent to the Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages in Stony Brook, New York