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Bedcover Depicting Thirty-four Scenes from the Old and New Testaments
1880s
- Medium
- Wool, plain weave; fulled; appliquéd with silk and cotton, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; some stamped; some embroidered with silk yarns in cross, overcast, running, double running, satin, and single…
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 195.3 × 189.8 cm (76 7/8 × 74 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- United States
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
