Advanced Search 
Bed curtain fragment
Chintz
Length of fabric
Bed curtain fragment
Chintz
English, used in America
last quarter of the 18th century
Place of Manufacture: England; Place of Use: United States, probably New England
Medium/Technique
Plate-printed cotton plain weave
Dimensions
Overall: 48 x 68.6 cm (18 7/8 x 27 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Ellen A. Stone
Accession Number98.1788
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
DescriptionRed printed textile fragment with white ground; scene of man, woman, and boy in 18th-century costume with a dog in a fenced-in garden at lower left, at upper right stands a bearded figure in long robe holding basket of grapes at the mouth of cave at top of four steps; single blue thread in selvedges
ProvenanceMiss Ellen A. Stone; Gift to the MFA, December, 1898