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| Title: | Album Quilt |
| Date: | 1842-1843 |
| Artist: | Made by Charlotte Gillingham (American, 1822–1883) |
| Medium: | Plain weave cottons and satin, plain, and figured silks with block- and roller-printed cottons and silks in appliqué and pieced work; silk, silk chenille, silk ribbon, and wool embroidery in chain, long and short, satin, stem, buttonhole, cross and tent stitches and French knots; intersecting diagonal quilting; drawings, inscriptions, and signatures in ink |
| Dimensions: | 8 feet 1 inches × 10 feet 6 inches (246.4 × 320 cm) |
| Classification: | Textiles |
| Credit Line: | Gift of Mrs. Levis Lloyd Mann, Mrs. H. Maxwell Langdon, Mrs. George K. Helbert, Mrs. Nelson D. Warwick, and Mrs. Granville B. Hopkins, granddaughters of Samuel Padgett Hancock, 1945 |
| Accession Number: | 1945-35-1 |
| Geography: | Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America |
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