Temperance
1846
Physical Qualities
Cotton; cotton and possibly silk embroidery threads, ink, 18 x 17 3/4 in. (45.7 x 45.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Robert V. Brawley, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Object Number
1981.149
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1981; Robert Brawley, Winston-Salem, NC.
Museum interns, Eaglemania: Furor over the National Emblem in Maryland Arts 1782-1867, The Baltimore Museum of Art, August 12 - October 7, 1977.
Dena S. Katzenberg, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Baltimore Album Quilts," 1980-1982, p. 60, ill. p. 60., 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.
Dena S. Katzenberg, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Baltimore Album Quilts," 1980-1982, p. 60, ill. p. 60., 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: Hand written in ink within banderole held by bird at upper (viewer's) left: "Mary Ann O'Laughlin"; Hand written in ink below this: "1847" Handwritten in ink using block letters within banderole held by bird's beak, center top: "The FOUNTAIN of HEALTH" Handwritten in ink below the fountain: "Temperance/ Spring up O well sweet Fountain spring/Sing ye that drink the waters sing/With Flowers adorn with verdure drest/And Ever the Cause of Temperance bless."
