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Grapevine Wreath-Memorial to Susannah Riley
Public Domain

Elizabeth R. Ellis, George Sanders, and others

Grapevine Wreath-Memorial to Susannah Riley

1846

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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
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1981; Robert Brawley. Winston-Salem, NC.
Dena S. Katzenberg, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Baltimore Album Quilts," 1980-1982, catalog does not include 1981.150, 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, "Sweet Dreams: Quilts and Coverlets from the Collection," Oct. 26-Dec. 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, 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.

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)

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