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Overshot Coverlet
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Overshot Coverlet

Textile MakerMade by Unknown
Dateabout 1800-1850
MediumHand-woven cotton and wool
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width, excluding fringe): 90 x 84 1/2in. (228.6 x 214.6cm)
Other (length of fringe): 2 1/4in. (5.7cm)
ClassificationsTextiles
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionHand-woven coverlet in an overshot squares pattern; dark green and rust-colored wool with white cotton warp and alternating weft threads. White cotton fringe on three sides. Seamed up the center.
Object number2002.56.2
On View
Not on view
Gift of John T. Whitman, 1963.8.2  Photograph by Gavin Ashworth.  © 2009 The Connecticut Histor…
Esther Lyman
1730-1760
Appliqué Quilt
Laura Crittenden
1848
Museum purchase, 1987.201.0  Photograph by David Stansbury.   © 2009 The Connecticut Historical…
Fanny Maria Case
1835-1843
The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2003.6.0  Photograph by Gavin Ashworth.  © 2009 The Conne…
Lorrain Collins
1786
1966.49.0 on a bed.
Lucy Arnold
1815
Gift of the Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, 1959.54.2  Photograph by Gavin Ashworth.  © 2009 Th…
Sarah Halsey
1758
Gift of Charles S. MacDonough, 1847.12.0  © 2008 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Commodore Thomas MacDonough
1812-1814
1959.56.0, Gift of Mrs. J. H. K. Davis. © 2008 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Elizabeth Foote
probably 1778
Dress
Mrs. Williams
about 1876
Gift of Mrs. Alfred Howe Terry, 1959.1.3 © 2009 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Unknown
1861-1865