Album Quilt

1855

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Dorcas Godman Brashear Harvey, Kate Harvey, and others

Album Quilt

Maker: Dorcas Godman Brashear Harvey
Maker: Kate Harvey
Makers: Ladies of Prince George’s County

Album Quilt

1855

Physical Qualities Cotton, cotton or silk embroidery threads, ink, 85 x 98 in. (215.9 x 248.9 cm.)

Credit Line Gift of Marion Farrow Noldt, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Object Number 2007.353

Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2007; Marion Farrow Stratton Noldt (1926-2014), Tulsa, OK by descent, 1984; Katharine Watson Farrow (née Farrar 1893-1984) by descent, 1914; Clara Catherine Farrar (nee Harvey (1855-1914)) by descent, 1893; Dorcas Godman Harvey (née Brashear 1818-1893).

Anita Jones, Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Jean and Allan Berman Textile Gallery, "Baltimore Album Quilts Revisited: A Matter of Style," 1st rotation, July 3rd, 2008-Jan. 27th, 2009, no catalog.

Baltimore Museum of Art, BMA Today (Summer 2008), ill. p. 14 (detail).

Baltimore Museum of Art, BMA Today (Fall 2008), p. 14.

Card, "In a New Light" Campaign, ill.

*also sold in the gift shop

Inscribed: a1: "A.M.H." (embroidered); a2: "Betty Cross" (inked); a3: "Henrietta Rittenhouse" (inked); a4: "Kate Harvey" (inked); a5: "Lizy Wall" (inked); a6: "Margaret A. Becket" (inked); a7: "T./H." (embroidered); b1: "Lizy Duvall" (inked); b2: "Rachel G. Lanham" (inked); b3: "Cordelia Beall" (inked); b4: "Harriet Beckett" (inked); b5: "Rebecca Hopkins" (inked); b6: "Catharine Beall" (inked); b7: "Harriet Becket" (inked); c1: "Sarah Cross" (inked); c2: "Mary S. Riddle" (inked); c3: "Kate Harvey" (inked); c4: "James W. Harvey's Quilt/Made by the ladies of Prince George's Co./Quilted by his sisters/Kate & Dorcas/1856 [note mistake and write over of '5']" (inked), "Dorcas Harvey (inked); c5: "Clara C. Harvey" (inked); c6: "Sarah J. Cross" (inked); c7: "Mary Harvey" (inked); d1: "Mary S. Yost" (inked); d2: "Rebecca Hopkins" (inked); d3: "Rebecca Hopkins" (inked); d4: "Harriet Cross" (inked); d5: "Kate Harvey" (inked); d6: "Mary J. Cross" (inked); d7: "Ginnie Duvall" (inked); e1: "Mary M. Cross" (inked); e2: "Mary A. Wright" (inked); e3: "Harriet J. Wall" (inked); e4: "Mag Goodman" (inked); e5: "May Duvall" (inked); e6: "Kate Harvey" (inked); e7: "Mary A. Wright" (inked); f1: "Ann Prather" (inked); f2: "Cate Harvey" (inked); f3: "H. Rittenhouse" (inked); f4: "Kate Harvey" (inked); f5: "Bettie Cross" (inked); f6: "Ann C. Hopkins" (inked); f7: "Catherine B. L. Hopkins" (inked)