Quilt
- Object Name:
- Quilt
- Object ID:
- 2002.635.02
- Place of Origin:
- NH
- Date:
- 1860-1890
- Description:
- Quilt. Made with 6" x 6" Double Z blocks, each between 9 and 9.5"square, being brown, double pinks, half mourning, blue, and green cotton prints; sashed with a madder red/brown print. The back is pieced with two different madder paisley prints, and the printed patchwork design of the Pickwick Papers. Coarsely quilted following the lines of the piecing in the blocks and in parallel diagonal lines in the sashing. The batting is white cotton and the edge finish was originally back-to-front.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton
Wool - Dimensions:
- W-80 L-88 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- People:
- Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
- Subjects:
- Needlework, Quilting, Sewing, Literature, Romanticism, Quilts
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