Unknown Artist
John Wesley Baltimore Album Quilt
1843-1853
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Unknown Artist
John Wesley Baltimore Album Quilt
1843-1853
Physical Qualities
Cotton, silk, velvet, corduroy, ink, beads; cotton, silk and wool embroidery thread, Overall: 102 3/8 × 104 in. (260 × 264.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Asbury Methodist Village, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Object Number
2019.107
Inscribed names include: Lizzie Rutledge, Mary J Vincent (portrait), Sarah J Cromer (house), F Younger, from H & C Shook and to Daniel Plowman (girl), Daniel Plowman and George J Dearing, and two illegible names.
On D3, to left of John Wesley's head reads a part of a poem entitled Child Reading the Bible by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793 – 1835), an English poet
O Father mould my heart once more
By thy prevailing breath;
Teach me O, teach me to adore
Evn with that pure ones faith
A faith all made of love and light
Childlike and therefore full of might
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2019; Asbury Methodist Village
Baltimore Museum of Art, Anita Jones, "Baltimore Album Quilts: Appliqued Artistry" (November 5, 2003 to May 9, 2004)
Inscribed: Inscribed names include: Lizzie Rutledge, Mary J Vincent (portrait), Sarah J Cromer (house), F Younger, from H & C Shook and to Daniel Plowman (girl), Daniel Plowman and George J Dearing, and two illegible names. Inscribed names include: Lizzie Rutledge, Mary J Vincent (portrait), Sarah J Cromer (house), F Younger, from H & C Shook and to Daniel Plowman (girl), Daniel Plowman and George J Dearing, and two illegible names.
Maker
Unknown Artist
2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00
