Object Details
- Brooke, Edith
- Farquahar, Anna
- Younghusband, Mary Pleasants
- Description
- Mary Pleasants Younghusband Brooke made this pieced and appliquéd quilt top at her home in Brooke Grove, Maryland, about 1835-1840. In 1910-1920, the donor (Mary Farquhar Green), her mother (Edith Brooke Green), and grandmother (Anna Farquhar Brooke) added the embroidery, lined the top, and hemmed the edges. Although family tradition held that the piecework and appliqué were done in 1797, the roller-printed cottons that were used for the piecework indicate a later date.
- Mary Younghusband was born in Virginia and married Roger Brooke V in 1804. It is said that her father, Isaac Younghusband, left her a shilling to buy a piece of rope to hang herself for marrying a Quaker. Mary and Roger had five children. Mary died in 1840.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mary Farquhar Green
- 1835-1920
- ID Number
- TE.T12884
- accession number
- 245319
- catalog number
- T12884
- Object Name
- quilt
- Physical Description
- fabric, cotton (overall material)
- thread, cotton, linen, silk (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 75 in x 73 in; 191 cm x 185 cm
- place made
- United States: Maryland, Montgomery county
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Quilts
- Textiles
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Quilting
- Record ID
- nmah_556406
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-bebe-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
