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Catalog Number |
X.1232 |
Object Name |
Quilt |
Description |
Quilt made in the Millersburg, Maryland, area south of Baltimore, in the Baltimore Album style popular in the eastern United States during this period. Each sixteen-inch block is quilted with a different motif, with ten stitches to the inch. The border is quilted with tulips and hearts. The quilt is predominantly red, green, and white: the center block has blue touches and four inked poems. The block next to the center reads "by the ladies for Benjamin Franklin Biggs 1848." The poems in the center block read as follows: "Flowers seek the light, their beauties to display; The leaf will smile the same by night as day, Here is the smile that no cloud can overcast; The flowers and leaves are thine own to the last." "The stars that gem life's morning sky, Smile sweetly over thee now; And flowers around they pathway lie, And roses crown thy brow--." "Should pleasure at its birth Fade like the hues of even[ing] Turn then away from earth, There's rest for thee in Heaven. " "Life is but a shadow -- save a promise given Which lights up sorrow with a fadeless day, I touch the sceptre -- with a hope in heaven; Come, turn thy spirit from the world away." |
Date |
1848 |