Object Details
- Shepherd, Lucy Addison
- Description
- Deep red and blue 11-inch squares were set diagonally, checkerboard fashion, to create this example of an early 19th century wool quilt. Each square is quilted with a floral or geometric motif. In total twenty-two different patterns, quilted 6 stitches per inch, were used.
- Lucy Addison was born in New Hampshire about 1808 or 1809 and married John Shepherd (or Shepard) in 1833. The quilt may have been made in New Hampshire, but according to censuses, after they were married they lived in Phillipston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, the rest of their lives. They had one son, Timothy Addison Shepherd, born in 1836, and it was his descendent, a great-grandson of Lucy and John, who donated the quilt in 1964.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Harold H. Shepard
- 1800-1840
- ID Number
- TE.T13511
- accession number
- 257167
- catalog number
- T13511
- Object Name
- quilt
- Physical Description
- fabric, wool (overall material)
- thread, cotton, linen (overall material)
- filling, wool (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 97 in x 97 in; 245 cm x 246 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Phillipston
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Textiles
- Domestic Furnishings
- Quilts
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Quilting
- Record ID
- nmah_556431
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-b8d7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
