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Gevels en haarden in de Dorische orde
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1581 – 1581
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: antwerp
Subjects: doric order ~ architecture, open hearth, fire-place, civic architecture; edifices; dwellings

Prent uit: Vredeman de Vries, Hans. Architectura oder Bauung der Antiquen auss dem Vitruvius, waellches sein funff Collummen orden, (...). Antwerpen: Gerard de Jode en Gerard Smits, 1581. Prent eerder verschenen in de 1577-editie.
Ushnisha Cover
Object type: cover
Materials: gold
Culture: indonesian, javanese
Portret van Napoleon Jozef Karel Paul Bonaparte
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1850 – 1870
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: charles reutlinger
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1816 – 1880
Subjects: historical persons, family of the sovereign
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘prins Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul (zoon/ Jérome Bonaparte, koning Westfalen, broer/ Napoleon I) 1822-1891’, inscription: ‘CH. REUTLINGER,/ PHOTOGRAPHE/ 21, Boulevart Montmartre, 21/ 112, Rue Richelieu, 112/ PARIS’, annotation: ‘Prinz Napoleon’
Kraaggier
Object type: drawing
Date: 1821 – 1891
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: guillaume anne van der brugghen
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1812 – 1891
Subjects: predatory birds: vulture
Skyphos (Drinking Cup)
Object type: vessel
Date: 410 – 400
Materials: glaze, terracotta
Culture: greek
Location: cales

During the course of the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, black vessels (commonly called black-glaze vessels) were made with increasing frequency in both Greece and South Italy. Many of them replicate the shape of metal vessels. Others have detailing that is molded or incised. While the quality of these vessels varies greatly, all would have been less expensive than vessels decorated in other contemporary techniques, for example, in red-figure.
The Third Gordon Bennett Balloon Race
Object type: photograph
Date: 1908 – 1908
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: schmargendorf
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: (flying a) gas balloon, balloon flight (sport), balloon (aviation)
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘"Ernst" Deutschland/ 37906/ 10/10/08/ Schmargendorf/ 10/10/08’

Opstijgende ballon met een man in de mand. Op de voorgrond hoofden van toeschouwers.
Vondelpark
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1900 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: vondelpark

Het Vondelpark te Amsterdam, in de sneeuw. Onderdeel van een groep van 5 foto's en 19 stereofoto's gemaakt door een onbekende amateurfotograaf rond 1900 in Amsterdam, de Ardennen en Denemarken.
Harlequin with Goat as Bagpipes
Object type: figure
Date: 1736 – 1736
Materials: hard paste porcelain
Artist: meissen manufactory
Artist role: manufactory
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1710 – 9999
Subjects: men,bagpipes,goats

Harlequin-bagpipers belong to Meissen's most popular commedia dell'arte designs. In this early version, the figure sits on a rocky mound, his head turned to the right and his right leg extended away from the pedestal. Subsequent models were more compact, with both legs resting on the base and the bagpipes held closer to the body. The diversity of costumes and poses attests to the design's commercial success, which necessitated frequent reneals of worn-out molds. Each time, the model would be slightly altered, for example by exchanging a peaked hat for a tricorne. The costume patterns, color scheme, and facial details were left entirely to the decorator's imagination. The Metropolitan Museum's Harlequin sports a pointed blue hat, a gold-trimmed yellow jacket with a white ruff collar, purple-and-red-striped britches over green stockings, and purple shoes with golden buckles. This colorful outfit and mischievously smiling mask conform to the picturesque aesthetics of eighteenth-century theatrical figures. Harlequin's bagpipes are made of a goat's hide complete with hooves, head, and horns. The instrument is clearly inspired by the Bohemian bock, featuring a single cylindrical chanter, small bellows, and a right-angle, extensible drone with two tubes connected by a sliding joint. While intact goatskins frequently served as bags, the head was replaced with a zoomorphically carved wooden stock. In the Meissen model, the exaggerated naturalism of the instrument amplifies the composition's grotesque character; it is difficult to resist the impression that Harlequin makes a live goat blow the chanter by squeezing its voluminous body with his left arm. Despite their lowly associations, small bagpipes known as musettes became popular in aristocratic circles in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Bock ensembles were attached to the Saxon court, accompanying weddings, hunts, and festival processions, while nobles often disguised themselves as Tyrolean bagpipers at court masquerades. Meissen figures were another expression of that broad cultural vogue.
Model of a Caisson
Object type: demonstration model
Date: 1800 – 1800
Materials: brass, wood
Location: france

Spantmodel van een schipdeur met dubbele kiel, incompleet. Aan de ene zijde is de schipdeur geheel afgewerkt, de andere kant is open. Drie dekken, en in de lengte in twee compartimenten ingedeeld. Twee kleine spuigaten onder aan de gesloten zijde, de afsluiters ontbreken. Er zijn uitsparingen voor slechts één pomp aan iedere kant. Het model lijkt veel op NG-MC-991 en past in diens sponningen.
Scherf van een kom uit V.O.C.-schip de 'Witte Leeuw'
Object type: sherd
Date: 1613 – 1613
Materials: porcelain
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: verenigde oostindische compagnie, sint-helena

Scherf van een kom uit V.O.C.-schip de 'Witte Leeuw'.
Portret van de hoogleraar Jacobus Ludovicus Conradus Schroeder van der Kolk.
Object type: print
Date: 1860 – 1879
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, engraving
Location: amsterdam
Artist: dirk jurriaan sluyter
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1811 – 1886
Subjects: utrecht
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 12
Schoen van gebrocheerde zijde
Object type: doll's clothing
Date: 1680 – 1690
Materials: leather, silk
Techniques: brocade
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous

Poppenschoen van rode gebrocheerde zijde, rode, vrij hoge hak. Vierkante neus, hoog oplopend voorblad, waarover twee lippen sluiten. De hak is overtrokken met rood leer,
Study for the Rape of the Sabines
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1564 – 1574
Materials: chalk, charcoal, ink, paper
Techniques: pen
Location: italy
Artist: circle of jacopo zanguidi, called bertoia
Compositie met vier figuren, mogelijk standbeelden met Minerva
Object type: print
Date: 1700 – 1799
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: (story of) minerva (pallas, athena), sculpture
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent uit een onbekend boek met objecten, kunstwerken en figuren uit de Romeinse geschiedenis en religie. Dit betreft een illustratie bij p. 21.
Ex libris van Frank Roy Fraprie
Object type: bookplate
Date: 1905 – 1905
Materials: paper
Techniques: printing block
Location: munich
Subjects: flowers: rose
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Frank R. Fraprie/ Brooklyn, Mass./ By J.A. Campbell/ Architect, Munich.’, collector's mark: Lugt 2233, collector's mark: Lugt 2760
Kop-en-schotel
Object type: miniature
Date: 1775 – 1775
Materials: silver
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: maker's mark

Trechtervormige theekop op een schotel. De schotel heeft een opstaande rand, is onversierd en gemerkt: mt.= Voet 430. De theekop is langs de bovenrand gegraveerd en is niet gemerkt. De kop en schotel worden bewaard als onderdeel van een theeservies (BK-NM-11177-142). Het theeservies heeft in het totaal twaalf kop en schotels die gelijk zijn aan dit exemplaar.
Covered jar with continuous lotus scrolls
Object type: covered jar
Date: 1740 – 1760
Materials: cobalt, glaze, paint, porcelain
Techniques: firing, turning, vitrification
Location: china
Artist: Anonymous

Dekselpot van porselein, beschilderd in onderglazuur blauw. Op de wand een band met doorlopende lotusranken. De deksel met dezelfde decoratie. Deksel is verlijmd. Enkele chips en een barst in de dekselpot. Blauw-wit.
Order of Maximilian, Bavaria, for Science and Art, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes
Object type: print
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: kinney brothers tobacco company
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1869 – 2011
Subjects: men,profiles

Trade cards from the "MIlitary Series" (N224), issued in 1888 by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes.
Portret van Jakob Venedey
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1840 – 1855
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: germany
Subjects: politician, walking-stick, staff, portrait of a writer
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent afkomstig uit: Conversations-Lexikon für die gebildeten Stände, voor het eerst uitgegeven tussen 1840-1855.
Portret van Rudolf, graaf van Wagensperg
Object type: print
Date: 1674 – 1674
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: cornelis meyssens
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1640 – 1673
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent waarschijnlijk uit: Gualdo Priorato, Galeazzo. Historia di Leopoldo Cesare (...). Wenen: Johann Baptist Hacque, 1674, dl. 3.
Baptism of Christ
Object type: painting
Date: 1500 – 1549
Materials: oil, panel
Location: northern italy
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: baptism of christ in the river jordan: john the baptist pouring out water on christ's head: the holy ghost descends

De doop van Christus. Johannes de Doper doopt Christus in de Jordaan. Links op de voorgrond houden twee engelen de kleren van Christus vast. Links op de achtergrond zit de schrijvende Johannes de Evangelist met boven hem het visioen van de Openbaring. In de hemel de duif van de Heilige Geest.
Dish with Floral Design
Object type: dish
Date: 1644 – 1911
Materials: amber
Culture: chinese
Couple with dog
Object type: group
Date: 1750 – 1750
Materials: soft paste porcelain
Artist: capodimonte porcelain manufactory
Artist role: manufactory
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1740 – 1759
Subjects: couples,dogs
Portret van Gerard De Lairesse
Object type: print
Date: 1659 – 1731
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: pieter van gunst
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1658 – 1731
Subjects: amsterdam, painter, print maker, draughtsman, gerard de lairesse, portrait, self-portrait of painter
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Gerard De Lairesse, een Luikse prentmaker en schilder. Het portret heeft de vorm van een schilderspalet.
Plate 14, Outlines of Figures, Landscapes and Cattle...for the Use of Learners
Object type: print
Techniques: etching
Artist: thomas rowlandson
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1757 – 1827
Subjects: men,women,dancing,horses,working
Profil de la Rochelle et de la Digue / Machine de du plessis et vassal
Object type: print
Date: 1628 – 1631
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Subjects: ornament ~ cartouche, fortified city, temporary fortifications
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Zestiende deel (randwerk, deel rechtsonder) van een prent van het beleg van het hugenotenbolwerk La Rochelle in de jaren 1627 en 1628, dat werd uitgevoerd in opdracht van de Franse koning door het Franse leger onder aanvoering van kardinaal Richelieu. Op dit blad rechts een voorstelling van een houten bouwwerk in zee en midden/links een voorstelling (omgeven door militaire attributen) van de dijk die Richelieu voor de ingang van de haven had laten bouwen om de stad af te sluiten.
Pottery vase with inscription labeling a royal estate
Object type: vase, labeling a royal estate
Date: 3100 – 3100
Materials: ink, pottery
Location: egypt
Scaraboid Bead with a device referring to Ptah
Object type: scarab
Date: 664 – 332
Materials: gemstone, jasper
Location: egypt
Subjects: hieroglyphs
De groote fontein
Object type: print
Date: 1832 – 1888
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, engraving
Location: netherlands
Artist: popko van groningen
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1822 – 1888
Subjects: french or architectonic garden; formal garden
Portrait of Theophrastus
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: belgium
Artist: Anonymous
Artist nationality: flemish
De Vriesepoort
Object type: print
Date: 1872 – 1872
Materials: paper
Techniques: tone lithography
Location: dordrecht
Artist: carel frederik bendorp (ii)
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1819 – 1897
Subjects: drawbridge ~ fortified city, dordrecht
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

In het midden een houten ophaalbrug, rechts daarvan de poort naar de stad. Links van de brug liggen enkele boten in het water. Onder de afbeelding het jaartal 1738.
Portret van een jonge Japanse vrouw staand bij een stoel
Object type: photograph
Date: 1870 – 1880
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: japan
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: adolescent, young woman, maiden, studio requisites ~ photographer, japan

Onderdeel van Fotoalbum van Robert Daniel Crommelin (1841-1907).
Scarab Inscribed for the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Maatkare (Hatshepsut)
Object type: scarab
Date: 1479 – 1458
Materials: stone
Techniques: glazing
Location: egypt
Subjects: scarabs
La Rétameuse
Object type: print
Date: 1858 – 1858
Materials: paper, ink
Techniques: printmaking, etching
Location: united states
Artist: james mcneill whistler
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1834 – 1903
Beauties of the East
Object type: print
Date: 1782 – 1782
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: kitao shigemasa
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1739 – 1820
Subjects: women
The Milton Shield
Object type: shield
Date: 1867 – 1867
Materials: copper, silver
Artist: elkington & co.
Artist role: manufactory
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1829 – 1963
Subjects: male nudes,female nudes,angels,adam,eve
Preekstoel met Christusfiguur en putti
Object type: print
Date: 1690 – 1710
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Artist: gerrit visscher
Artist role: print maker
Subjects: ornaments ~ art, 'salvator mundi', making a blessing gesture; an orb in his hand or at his feet, pulpit, ambo, chancel, cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti', holy ghost represented as a dove (in flames)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een ornamentele preekstoel versierd met putti en cherubijnen en in het midden op de buitenzijde van het spreekgestoelte Christus als Salvator Mundi. Geheel bovenaan de duif van de Heilige Geest.
A Woman Nomori (Onna Nomori), no. 11 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays
Object type: print
Date: 1716 – 1735
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodblock print, sumizuri
Location: japan
Artist: okumura masanobu
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1686 – 1764
Jug
Object type: jug
Date: 1701 – 1750
Materials: earthenware, pewter
Techniques: glazing
Subjects: flowers
Coach #3083
Object type: drawing
Date: 1874 – 1874
Materials: gouache, ink, watercolor
Techniques: pen
Artist: brewster & co.
Artist role: manufacturer
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: carriages

Brewster & Company History Established in 1810 by James Brewster (1788–1866) in New Haven, Connecticut, Brewster & Company, specialized in the manufacture of fine carriages. The founder opened a New York showroom in 1827 at 53-54 Broad Street, and the company flourished under generations of family leadership. Expansion necessitated moves around lower Manhattan, with name changes reflecting shifts of management–James Brewster & Sons operated at 25 Canal Street, James Brewster Sons at 396 Broadway, and Brewster of Broome Street was based at 372 & 374 Broome Street with a repository (showroom) on 14th Street & Fifth Avenue. By 1874, Brewster & Company had 400 employees and combined warehouse and factory facilities at 47th & 48th Streets and Broadway. Brewster successfully branched out to produce their own automobiles, as well as supplying bodies for Rolls Royce at their Long Island City location. Notable clientele included Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, August Belmont, J.P. Morgan, John Jacob Astor, Andrew J. Cassatt (brother of artist Mary Cassatt), William Rockefeller, Henry Clay Frick and Pierre Lorillard. Talented draftsmen employed by the firm included Paul Steinbeck, Herman Stahmer and John Gribbon, the latter teaching at the Carriage Builders and Designers Technical School, which opened in 1880 and was housed initially at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When the company finally dissolved in 1923, its last owner William Brewster (1866–1949) donated its archive of design and presentation drawings to the Museum where he served as benefactor and trustee. Of all American carriage manufacturers, none was as highly regarded for design, finish and quality as Brewster & Company. They won many awards for outstanding workmanship, including the Legion d’Honneur (Legion of Honor) at the 1878 Paris Exposition (3rd World’s Fair). In appreciation for this achievement the Carriage Builders’ National Association presented them with a gold enameled Tiffany & Company plaque and autograph book signed by leading American carriage builders, both now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Merri Ferrell, 2016
Plaque
Object type: plaque
Date: 1895 – 1895
Materials: earthenware
Culture: american
Location: united states
Artist: charles volkmar
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1841 – 1914
Subjects: houses
Nederlandse klederdrachten naar Pieter van den Berge
Object type: print
Date: 1689 – 1713
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching, hand coloring
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: pipe ~ tobacco, farmers, folk costume, regional costume
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Boer afkomstig van het eiland Vlieland staat met een pijp in zijn mond aan de kust. Achter hem de zee met twee schepen. Prent uit een serie prenten naar Pieter van den Berge met dorpelingen die klederdrachten dragen.
Yuhuchun vase with lotus petals
Object type: vase
Date: 1201 – 1400
Materials: stoneware
Techniques: incising
Culture: chinese
Gezicht op een gebouw bij een boom
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1828 – 1897
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: netherlands
Artist: adrianus eversen
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1818 – 1897
Subjects: trees, civic architecture; edifices; dwellings

Gezicht op een gebouw bij een boom. Blad 6 recto uit een schetsboek met 58 bladen.
Portret van Giovanni Battista Truchi
Object type: print
Date: 1625 – 1669
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: italy
Artist: giovanni battista bonacina
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1615 – 1669
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
William P. Montague
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1889 – 1894
Materials: paper
Techniques: photoaquatint
Location: boston
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: adult man
Josie Hall, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: allen & ginter
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: portraits,profiles,women,actresses

Trade cards from the "Actors and Actresses" series (N45, Type 1), issued ca. 1888 by Allen & Ginter to promote Virginia Brights, Dixie, Our Little Beauties and Opera Puffs Cigarettes.
St. Andrew, from "Christ, the Apostles and St. Paul with the Creed"
Object type: print
Date: 1589 – 1589
Techniques: engraving
Artist: hendrick goltzius
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: netherlandish
Artist dates: 1558 – 1617
Subjects: portraits,apostles,saints
Owl
Object type: figure
Date: 1750 – 1760
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: glazing
Artist: whieldon type
Artist role: artist
Subjects: owls
Birmandreis
Object type: page
Date: 1888 – 1893
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Artist: jules gervais-courtellemont
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1863 – 1931
Subjects: prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city
Portret van Maria van Oostenrijk
Object type: print
Date: 1626 – 1668
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: paris
Subjects: historical persons - bb - woman, emperor - bb - female ruler, armorial bearing, heraldry
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Apron
Object type: apron
Date: 1880 – 1880
Materials: cotton
Culture: american
Crouching Cat Figurine
Object type: figurine, cat
Date: 664 – 380
Materials: bronze
Location: egypt
Subjects: cats
Footed Bowl with Marvered Decoration in White and Turquoise
Object type: bowl
Date: 1101 – 1400
Materials: glass
Techniques: glassblowing, tooling
Location: syria

In the 12th–14th centuries the manufacture of marvered glass was among the many shared features in the artistic creation and material culture of Syria and Egypt, ruled at the time by the Ayyubids and then the Mamluks. The deep-purple glass and white trail combination is the most commonly one found in Syria, and is attested on a variety of shapes, also including kohl bottles, flasks, bottles, beakers, and perfume sprinklers.
Scènes uit Genesis
Object type: print
Date: 1579 – 1583
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: the meeting at the well: eliezer sees rebekah coming with a pitcher, isaac, walking in the fields, meets rebekah, eliezer is entertained by rebekah's parents, eliezer taking the oath: abraham sends him to his relatives in mesopotamia to find a wife for isaac
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Abraham stuurt zijn knecht Eliëzer de wereld in om op zoek te gaan naar een vrouw voor Isaak. Eliëzer zweert op de lies van Abraham dat hij een vrouw voor Isaak zal vinden. Boven, drie medaillons met afbeeldingen van de reis van Eliëzer: links de ontmoeting met Rebekka bij de waterput, midden Eliëzer tijdens het feestmaal gegeven door de broer van Rebekka, rechts de eerste ontmoeting tussen Rebekka en Isaak. De prent heeft een Latijns onderschrift in een cartouche. De prent is deel van een serie met scènes uit het Bijbelboek Genesis.
Wineglass
Object type: wineglass
Date: 1730 – 1730
Materials: glass
Subjects: men,telescopes

The moon, our closest celestial neighbor, has long been of interest to scientists and artists alike. This etched wineglass shows two eighteenth-century gentlemen, identified by their wigs, studying the heavens with books and scientific instruments.
Auto met chauffeur en twee vrouwen vlakbij Serebryany Bor park en een auto op weg naar Moskou vanuit het Tsaritsynopark met een chauffeur, twee vrouwen en een jongeman
Object type: photograph
Date: 1911 – 1911
Materials: paper, cardboard
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: russia
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: historical persons, automobile
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Non loin du "Серебряный Бор" une halte sur la chaussée.’, inscription: ‘- Царицыно "En route pour Moscou" 1911.’

Deze foto's maken deel uit van een album.
Hanging
Object type: textile
Date: 1876 – 1900
Materials: cord, cotton, gilt, metal, silk, thread, velvet, wool
Techniques: embroidery, painting, weave
Location: united states
Subjects: coat of arms, animals, insects, birds, flowers, people, royalty

The images on this hanging signal that it may be a souvenir of Mexico. The octagonal piece of fabric in the center features the national coat of arms: an eagle eating a serpent grasped in its talons while standing on a prickly pear cactus. Irregularly shaped pieces of fabric surround this central image and contain painted scenes that depict bullfighting, pre-Columbian sculpture, flowers, butterflies, views of the landscape, and scenes of everyday life. The collection and combination of these scenes suggest that the hanging could be an expression of affection for a place well known and loved or a place imagined through armchair travel.
—Making Memories: Quilts as Souvenirs, October 20, 2017-April 1, 2018