Collection Highlights
View of St. Patrick's Cathedral from Inside Rockefeller Center: Study for a Set of Painted Doors
2002
2002.46
Gouache, colored pencil, and graphite on gray paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Printed textile
Title
Printed textile
Object name
Textile fragment
Date
ca. 1876
Medium
Cotton
Dimensions
Overall: 5 1/2 x 12 in. ( 14 x 30.5 cm )
Description
Cotton copper-engraved 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."
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number
1941.110
Marks
printed: below portrait: "1776"
printed: on shield: "& PEACE"
Gallery Label
This textile was probably made around the time of the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
