Hanging, Bed
- Object Name:
- Hanging, Bed
- Object ID:
- 1957.065.02.38 e
- Date:
- 1966-1983
- Description:
- Part of bed hanging set, rose linen, center seam.
Canopy or bed curtain. Reproduction. Top part of a set of bed hangings. Constructed from two 23" wide slubby rose colored linen panels, stitch selevedge to selvedge at center. Hemmed 0.5" with machine stitiches on all sides. - Material:
- Textile
Linen - Dimensions:
- W-46 L-70 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Prentis Collection, exhibited in the "bedroom" of the NHHS Prentis rooms. Listed as "English, late 17th C." on Prentis Collection inventory.
The Prentis Collection -- given by Katherine Prentis Murphy and her brother Edmund Astley Prentis, in memory of Katherine's husband, David Edward Murphy -- formed the contents of a suite of early New England "period rooms," meant to represent the home of a prosperous New England merchant c. 1730. The rooms were exhibited at the New Hampshire Historical Society (30 Park St.), 1957-1983. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Katharine Prentis Murphy and Edmund Astley Prentis Jr., in Memory of David Edward Murphy
- People:
- Murphy, Katharine Prentis (1882-1967), Prentis, Edmund Astley, Jr. (1883-1967), Murphy, David E. (1859-1919)
- Subjects:
- Linen, Bedding, Bed curtain, Textiles, Interior decoration, Reproductions
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