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American Decorative Arts
Explore image in Needlework picture
1800–1820
Silk, gilded wood, gilded and black painted glass
19 1/8 × 23 1/4 in. (48.58 × 59.06 cm)
Gift of Robert D. Graff
2011.167.2
Geography:
Possibly made in England
or possibly made in United States
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
American or British
Period:
19th century
Classification:
Textiles
Provenance:
Mr. William Owen Goodman (1848–1936) and Mrs. William Owen Goodman (nee Erna Malvina Sawyer, 1859–1943), Chicago and Westbrook, Connecticut; by descent in 1943 to their granddaughter Marjorie Goodman Dewey Graff (1914–2009), Far Hills, New Jersey; by descent in 2009 to her husband Robert D. Graff, Far HIlls, New Jersey
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions,” https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2012.pdf (accessed December 21, 2012).
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
