Woven Portrait, mid-19th century
This object is resting in our storage facility.
We acquired this object in 1962
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- Object ID: 18445621
- Accession Number: 1962-56-39
- Acquired: 1962
- Short URL: http://cprhw.tt/o/2CxeX/
- Woven Portrait, mid-19th century. mid-19th century. Medium: silk Technique: jacquard woven: warp-faced plain weave (white) with continuous supplementary weft (black). Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf. 1962-56-39.
Small piece of white fabric with two woven pictures in shades of black, white and grays. On top, a portrait of Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) after a portrait by Jean-Claude Bonnefond (1796-1860). Below, a picture of a loom with the Jacquard punch-card mechanism. Woven on a loom equipped with a Jacquard mechanism by Carquillat (died 1884).
This woven portrait is medium: silk technique: jacquard woven: warp-faced plain weave (white) with continuous supplementary weft (black). Its dimensions are: Warp x Weft: 44.5 x 34.3 cm (17 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.) Loom width: 17 1/2 in..
This woven portrait is from France and dated mid-19th century
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Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf.
This object has been included in the following exhibitions:
- Faster, Cheaper, Newer, More: The Revolutions of 1848, Friday, June 04, 2004 - Sunday, January 30, 2005
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