Elizabeth R. Ellis, George Sanders, and others
Grapevine Wreath-Memorial to Susannah Riley
1846
Scroll
- Maker: Elizabeth R. Ellis
- Made for: George Sanders
- Dedicated to: Susannah Riley
Grapevine Wreath-Memorial to Susannah Riley
1846
Physical Qualities
Cotton; silk or cotton embroidery threads; ink, 17-1/2 x 17-3/4 in. (44.4 x 45.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Robert V. Brawley, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Object Number
1981.150
Album quilt squares could be made by one person upon the request of another. This square is proof that a male might ask a female friend to create a square in his name to honor the quilt recipient. This may also be the case for other squares found in album quilts that carry male signatures and those signed for very young members of a family who could not yet sign their own names.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1981; Robert Brawley. Winston-Salem, NC.
Baltimore Album Quilts Revisited: A Matter of Style; 2nd Rotation
Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore Album Quilt, Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, pp. 88-91, cat. #10, d4 shows an almost identical square also by Elizabeth R. Ellis.
Inscribed: "In memory of/Susannah Riley/Made by her daughter,/Elizabeth R. Ellis./She is gone to [a] world far better than this,/Where angels rejoice in regions of bliss;/In the footsteps of Jesus she faithfully trod,/and now she is singing the praises of God./For an esteemed friend/ George Sanders." (inked)
!["MEMORIAL TO SUSANNA[H] RILEY"](https://artbmadevsite.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/42024_13532818.jpg)
![[FIGURE WITH LONG HAIR, WEARING A DRESSSING GOWN, HOLDING A WREATH AND QUILL]](https://artbmadevsite.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/101494_32343274.jpg)
