Elizabeth Barbara Garrett
Checkerboard Quilt with Chintz Border
1838
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Elizabeth Barbara Garrett
Checkerboard Quilt with Chintz Border
1838
Physical Qualities
Cotton, 112 x 120 in. (284.5 x 304.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Garrett, Santa Rosa, California
Object Number
2015.127
A rectangular quilt wider than long composed of 2-1/2" square blocks of many different cotton fabrics including dark ground prints with floral patterns and brown ground prints. The 841 printed blocks alternate with 841 plain white blocks throughout in rows of 29 (including two halves) and columnns of 29 (including two halves). A printed chintz border 11-3/4" wide featuring a large repeating leaf and floral motifs as well as a smaller, more geometric design surrounds three of the four sides with the top being borderless. This border is pieced at the bottom and top corners, creating both squared and mitered corners that are pieced again within those parameters.
The lining is created of pieces of white cotton. The back is brought to the front and turned under to form a 1/4" binding on all sides. Quilted in 8 stitches per inch (top only) or 16 stitches per inch (back and front), using straight vertical and horitontal lines/stacked rectangles in the body and chevron designs in the border.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2015; Edith and James Garrett, Baltimore, by inheritance
Dunton Papers, Volume VI, pp. 68-69.
William Rush Dunton Papers, Vol. VI, pp. 66-69; The Baltimore Museum of Art. (includes photos and descriptions of this and another Elizabeth Barbara White quilts, initialed and dated.)
Antique collectors. Baltimore: Its History and Its People, pp. 455-458.
"Gives Statue of Lee: Mrs. Elizabeth B. White Wills Property for Shaft in Park./Southern Colleges Benefit," The [Baltimore] Sun (1837-1986): Nov17, 1917; Proquest Historical Newspapers, p. 12.
Katharine B. Dehler, "Mt. Vernon Place at the Turn of the Century: A Vignette of the Garrett Family," Maryland Historical Magazine, Fall, 1974, pp. 279-292.
See William Rush Dunton, Old Quilts, privately published, Catonsville, MD 1946, pp. 231-2 for information on the Elizabeth Stouffer quilts made by E.B.G.'s mother prior to her marriage, as well as similar quilt made by her aunt.
Bide, Martin. "Secrets of the Printer's Palette," in Down by the Old Mill Stream: Quilts in Rhode Island, Linda Welters & Margaret T. Ordonez (eds.), Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2000, pp.83-97.
Antique collectors. Baltimore: Its History and Its People, pp. 455-458.
"Gives Statue of Lee: Mrs. Elizabeth B. White Wills Property for Shaft in Park./Southern Colleges Benefit," The [Baltimore] Sun (1837-1986): Nov17, 1917; Proquest Historical Newspapers, p. 12.
Katharine B. Dehler, "Mt. Vernon Place at the Turn of the Century: A Vignette of the Garrett Family," Maryland Historical Magazine, Fall, 1974, pp. 279-292.
See William Rush Dunton, Old Quilts, privately published, Catonsville, MD 1946, pp. 231-2 for information on the Elizabeth Stouffer quilts made by E.B.G.'s mother prior to her marriage, as well as similar quilt made by her aunt.
Bide, Martin. "Secrets of the Printer's Palette," in Down by the Old Mill Stream: Quilts in Rhode Island, Linda Welters & Margaret T. Ordonez (eds.), Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2000, pp.83-97.
Inscribed: Embroidered in cross stitches at upper top center on reverse: "EBG/ 1839/ 5"
