Album Quilt

1845

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Friends and Family of Samuel Williams

Album Quilt

Friends and Family of Samuel Williams

Album Quilt

1845

Physical Qualities Cotton, velvet; wool and silk embroidery threads, ink, 107 1/2 x 119 1/2 in. (273.1 x 303.5 cm.)

Credit Line Gift of Serena O'Laughlen Wagner, Baltimore

Object Number 1988.206

Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1988; Mrs. Serena O'Laughlen Wagner by descent, Baltimore, MD; Samuel Williams O'Laughlen by descent; Samuel Williams Baltimore, MD.

Dena Katzenberg, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Baltimore Album Quilts," Dec. 13, 1981-Feb. 7, 1982, cat. no. 10, p. 88-91, ill. p. 89, detail p. 90; circulated to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Nov. 18, 1980-Jan. 11, 1981; Metropolitan Museum, New York, June 30, 1981-Aug. 30, 1981.

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

Anita Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, "Sweet Dreams: Quilts and Coverlets from the Collection," October 26-December 31, 1994, no catalog.

Anita Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Baltimore Album Quilts: Appliquéd Artistry," Nov. 5, 2003-May 9, 2004, no catalog.

Anita Jones, 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.

William Rush Dunton, Jr. Old Quilts. Catonsville, Maryland: By the Author, 1946, pp. 30-34, ill. frontispiece.

"BMA Today," December 1989, ill.

"BMA Today, Jan./Feb. 2003, p. 22, ill.

"Baltimore's Quilting Heritage." Magazine of the American Folk Art Museum (Winter 2003/2004), p. 20, illustrated p. 20.

"Hali," Spring 2009, Issue 159, Exhibitions section, p. 117, ill.

Brochure, "Mimi Dietrich*Baltimore Museum of Art" 6-page full color brochure by P&B Textiles,Burlingame, CA, 2006. cover illustration.

Inscribed: al: "Maria Williams" (inked); a2: "Michael O'Laughlen" (inked); a3: Helen Brown/Baltimore/March 8th 1847" (inked); a4: "S.W. O'Laughlen" (inked); a5: "Arianna Rankin" (inked); a6: "Esther Rankin/1847" (inked); b1: "Friendship's Offering/A.M. Hardisty" (inked); b2: "A. Lizzie Morrison" (inked); b3: "Mary Ann O'Laughlen" (inked); b4: "Agnes Rankin/1846" (inked); b5: "Agnes Bryson" (inked); b6: "Maria Williams" (inked); c1: "Sarah R. Creamer" (inked); c2: "Maria Stevenson/1846" (inked); c3: "Maria Kate O'Laughlen" (inked); c4: "Susan E. Bond/1846" (inked); c5: "Maria Stevenson/1846" (inked); c3: "Maria Kate O'Laughlen" (inked); c4: "Susan E. Bond/1846" (inked); d1: "M.A. Hook (embroidered); d2: "Katherine Wehner" (inked); d3: "Samuel Rankin/1846" (inked); d4: "HOLY BIBLE" (inked), "Elizabeth R. Ellis" (inked); d5: "Benjamin E. Bond/November 15th, 1846" (inked); d6: "Edward Rossiter" (inked); e1: "Mary Turner" (inked); e2: "Mary Myers" (inked); e3: "Lizzie Pattison" (inked); e4: "[E?]liza C. Bryson" (inked); e5: ''Arms of Delaware" (inked), "E.M. Pettit" (inked); e6: "Samuel Kimberly/1846/Baltimore/Sept/15" (inked); f1: "Lizzie Mor[r]ison" (embroidered); f2: "Thomas K. Turner" (inked); f3: "BIBLE" (inked), "Mary Ann O'Laughlen" (inked); f4: "John Armstrong Jr." (inked); f5: "Stracy L. Hardisty" (inked); f6: Margaret L. Brown" (inked); g1: "Ann Brown/Baltimore/March 8th 1847" (inked); g2: "Susan Turner" (inked); g3: "Jane L. Creamer/Baltimore/March 8th 1847" (inked); g4: "Maria K. O'Laughlen" (inked); g5: "M.A. Hook" (embroidered); g6: "Cassandra Dawson" (inked)