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Bed Curtain Fragment

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

ca. 1820

GUSN

GUSN-46030

Description

Black and white copperplate views of the life of a horse. Views progress down from racer, to squire's fox ride, to drawing a stage, to drawing a cart, to being dead in a cart.

Details

Descriptive Terms

bed curtains
fragments
copper engraving (printing process)
cotton (textile)
printing (process)
rolling up
toile (textile material)
textiles
copper (metal)
architecture (object genre)
architectural elements
carriages (vehicles)
floral patterns
genre
figure- and animal-derived motifs
horse (animal)
hunters (people)
Hanging, Bed
Curtain, Bed
Cotton
Transfer Printed
Stipple Engraved
Toile
Floral
Carriage
Genre Scene
Horse
Huntsmen
Architecture
Unidentified Textile
Curtain, Bed

Inscription

Print: High Mettled Racer Fox Chase Home Brewed Ale Hack on the Road To London Drawing a Sand Cart Dead in the Cart

Associated Building

Used At Josiah Newell House,

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

England

Dimensions

27 x 24 1/2 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Abbott Lowell Cummings

Accession Number

1959.19

Reference Notes

Anonymous. By a Fine Hand. [No Publisher].

Places

Connecticut (United States)

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