Lyres

Unknown (American)


Item type:
textile, clothing and costume
Date of creation:
1830-1840
Height:
141.7 cm  (55 13/16 in.)
Width:
184.7 cm  (72 11/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment
Place of creation:
New York (New York, United States)

Additional titles

Coverlet

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    [Museum inv. no.: 1972.160]Gift of Mrs. Everett C. McNear

Description

A repeated design in the border includes representations of lyres.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford (New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987) 287da91. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1702