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New London County Quilts & Bed Covers, 1750‒182

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Artist(s): Mary Hinkley West (1715 - 1793)
Title: Bed Rug
Date: Connecticut, 1763
Dimensions: 95 in. x 87 1/2 in. (241.3 cm x 222.25 cm)
Medium: worked wool on wool ground
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, gift of Nelson C. Taintor in memory of Ruth Thayer Taintor, mother of John Thayer Taintor (PA 1935) and Nelson Case Taintor (PA 1943), 1965.8

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Periods and Styles: Early America

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Bed Ruggs 1722-1833, Wadsworth Atheneum, 11/8/1972 - 12/31/1972
Five Anonymous American Paintings in the Smith College Museum of Art Collection, Smith College Museum of Art, 3/6/1975 - 4/20/1975
Presence of the Past: Decorative Arts at Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/21/1995 - 3/19/1995
Art and Craft, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/30/2005 - 7/31/2005
The Art of Ambition in the Colonial Northeast, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2019 - 12/15/2019
New London County Quilts & Bed Covers, 1750‒182, Florence Griswold Museum, 2/12/2022 - 5/1/2022

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