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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
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2015; Edith and James Garrett, Baltimore, by inheritance
Dunton Papers, Volume VI, pp. 68-69.

Inscribed: Embroidered in cross stitches at upper top center on reverse: "EBG/ 1839/ 5"

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Elizabeth Barbara Garrett

1826–1916

American, 1827-1917
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