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"Wedding Sampler" Quilt

Unknown artist, c. 1840/50

2.38 m × 2.32 m

It would not fit through your front door. Stood on end it is 1.4 people tall.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 2.32 m
Width: 2.38 m
Medium: Cotton, plain weaves; some roller printed; pieced; padded with cotton, backed with cotton, plain weave; quilted with cotton
Kind: Textile
Made in: New Hampshire
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
As the museum records it: 237.6 × 231.7 cm (93 1/2 × 91 1/4 in.)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 2.32 m × 2.38 m. Hung the other way up, because the photograph of it is.
Credit: Gift of Shelly Zegart

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 2.38 m × 2.32 m. It would not fit through your front door. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made c. 1840/50. It is in the public domain, and The Art Institute of Chicago publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Art Institute of Chicago: Gift of Shelly Zegart.
How was it made?: Cotton, plain weaves; some roller printed; pieced; padded with cotton, backed with cotton, plain weave; quilted with cotton, made in New Hampshire.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Art Institute of Chicago. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.