Rebecca Penn Magruder
Album Quilt
1845
Physical Qualities
Cotton ground, wool, cotton and/or silk embroidery threads, ink, 119 1/8 x 116 in. (302.6 x 294.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Duncan Magruder Mills and Margaret Mills Maslak in Memory of their Mother, Vivian Magruder Moore Mills
Object Number
2012.584
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift; Duncan Magruder and Margaret Mills Maslak by inheritance from Vivian (or Virginia?) Magruder Moore Mills (mother) (died 1994), by inheritance from Alyce Virginia Magruder Moore (1882-1961) (grandmother), by inheritance from maker Rebecca Penn Magruder
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," February 7-May 8, 2016.
Becky Brown, "A Shared Treasure," American Quilter, Summer, 1988, pp. 12-13, ill.
Sotheby's [New York], Important Americana: Furniture and Folk Art, January 18, 1998, lot 1477, illus. on cover and inside.
"Gifts of Art," BMA Today, Summer 2013, p. 12, ill.
Inscribed: Marked in cross stitch on block 1E: "M.M. Brunner" Marked in embroidery stitches on block. 5C: "Lady's Album" Inked in writing on banderole in temperance block 2C: "Fountain of Life" Written in ink on fabric label sewn onto back corner, reverse: "Virginia Quilt Project/4-29-89, Reg. #2-89"
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