Hanging, Bed

Object Name:

Hanging, Bed

Object ID:

1957.065.02.39

Date:

1966-1983

Description:

Bed curtain. Reproduction. Plain woven silk with slubby yarns. Part of a set of bed hangings displayed behind headboard. Ten-panel construction seamed horizontallly. Right and left sides mirror each other in construction consisting of two panels measuring 32.5" x 24.5 and 23" x 24.5" seamed. Right center panel and left center panel mirror construction with three panels seamed horizontally in order from top to bottom: 11.5" x 22", 32.5 x 22", 11.5" x 22". All panels joined end to end with whip stitches. Sides selvedges. Hemmed 0.25" on bottom. 17 blue woven twill tape hanging loops spaced 4" apart, stitched to top.

Material:

Textile
Silk

Dimensions:

W-92 L-54 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 Katharine Prentis Murphy and her brother Edmund Astley Prentis, in memory of Katharine'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