1800 - 1840 Lucy Shepherd's Wool Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1800-1840
name: label: maker
content: Shepherd, Lucy Addison
notes: label: Description
content: Deep red and blue 11-inch squares were set diagonally, checkerboard fashion, to create this example of an early 19th century wool quilt. Each square is quilted with a floral or geometric motif. In total twenty-two different patterns, quilted 6 stitches per inch, were used.
label: Description
content: Lucy Addison was born in New Hampshire about 1808 or 1809 and married John Shepherd (or Shepard) in 1833. The quilt may have been made in New Hampshire, but according to censuses, after they were married they lived in Phillipston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, the rest of their lives. They had one son, Timothy Addison Shepherd, born in 1836, and it was his descendent, a great-grandson of Lucy and John, who donated the quilt in 1964.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Phillipston
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
label: See more items in
content: Textiles
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
label: See more items in
content: Quilts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Harold H. Shepard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T13511
label: accession number
content: 257167
label: catalog number
content: T13511
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton, linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: filling, wool (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 97 in x 97 in; 245 cm x 246 cm