Album Quilt: Baltimore Bride’s Presentation

1848

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Mary Simon (née Heidenroder)

Album Quilt: Baltimore Bride’s Presentation

Mary Simon (née Heidenroder)

Album Quilt: Baltimore Bride’s Presentation

1848

Physical Qualities Cotton, silk velvet, ink, 104 x 105 1/2 in. (264.3 x 268.1 cm.)

Credit Line Friends of the American Wing Fund

Object Number 1976.93

Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1976; Ingrid (Mrs. Louis Thalmann) by descent; Elizabeth Atkinson by descent; William Randel Berry Atkinson and Elizabeth Bell Throckmorton Atkinson (nee. Murphy) by descent; Elizabeth Sliver Atkinson (1829-1893) by gift, 1849.

Dena Katzenberg, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Baltimore Album Quilts," 1980-1982, Cat. #18, p. 106, ill. p. 107, detail p. 6 and p. 61, circulated to: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Nov. 18, 1980-Jan. 11, 1981; Metropolitan Museum, New York, June 30, 1981-Aug. 30, 1981; BMA Dec. 13, 1981-Feb. 7, 1982.

Anita Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Baltimore Album Quilts," December 2, 1986 - March 1-1987, no catalogue.

Anita Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Baltimore Album Quilts," December 5, 1989 - March 18, 1990, no catalogue.

Anita Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Sweet Dreams: Quilts and Coverlets from the Collection"' October 26 - December 31, 1994.

Anita Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Baltimore Album Quilts: Appliquéd Artistry," Nov. 5, 2003-May 9, 2004.

Anita Jones, Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Jean and Allan Berman Textile Gallery, "Baltimore Album Quilts Revisited: A Matter of Style," 2nd rotation, July 3rd, 2008-Jan. 27th, 2009, no catalog.

Bernard Aikema, (ed.) "Art Donations - Selected works donated by members of the World Federation of Friends of Museums." 2005.

"Memories in the Making." Baltimore Museum of Art, BMA Today November/ December 2003), ill. p. 13 and p. 16.

Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough. "Lavish Legacies: Baltimore Album and Related Quilts in the Maryland Historical Society." Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1994, p.14-23, ill. p. 20, related p.60-61 and p.112-113.

Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough. 'Baltimore Album Quilts.' "The Magazine Antiques," March 1994, p. 419; ftn. 11, p. 421.

Anita Jones. "Diamond of the Month." The Baltimore Museum of Art, December 1989.

"Members Calendar." The Baltimore Museum of Art, December 1986, ill.

Dena S. Katzenberg. "Baltimore Album Quilts". Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1981, page 107, plate 18.

Hannah Mary Trimble. Diary. Entry for February 1, 1850, MS2517. Manuscripts Division, Library of Maryland History, Maryland Historical Society. *Diary entry may refer to this quilt or a related quilt in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Inscribed: Written in ink on brown patch appliqued to Bible in central medallion: "Mifs Elisabeth Sliver" [long S stye used] b3/b4: "Rustic Basket" (inked); c2-d2: "Chine'es Basket" (inked); c3/c4/d3/d4: "HOLY BIBLE" (inked), "To/Mifs Elisabeth Sliver/This is/Affections tribute Offering-/Presented By Father & Mother/To/Mifs Elisabeth Sliver/Baltimore- 1849."; c5-d5: "Wicker Basket" (inked); e3-e4: "Swiss Basket" (inked)