Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Quilt |
Title |
Davies Crazy Quilt |
Catalog Number |
1972.012 |
Date |
1887 |
Description |
Top: Crazy quilt (patchwork; 30 blocks); foundation. Embroidery. Materials are multi-colored silk and velvet. Features photographic images of various Confederate leaders printed on silk in the center of each square. Border is 1.5" wide velvet. Embroidered: date "1887". Interlining: none. Backing: none Binding: Black velvet. Stitching: Hand. |
Material |
textile (silk, velvet) |
Dimensions |
W-70 L-79 inches |
Owned |
Marie Middleton Davies; W. W. Davies |
Made |
probably Richmond, Virginia, USA |
Provenance |
The patchwork quilt was made as a Confederate commemorative quilt in 1887. It was also a friendship quilt, each square having been worked by a different person. A photograph of various Confederate leaders is printed on the white silk in the center of each square. It belonged to Mrs. Marie Middleton Davies. She and her husband, W. W. Davies, in whose memory the quilt was given, ran the Lee Galleries, a photographic studio, in Richmond, Virginia. The photographs are identified as follows (from left to right): Row 1: A.P Hill; Thomas J. Jackson; Jefferson Davis; JEB Stuart; Jefferson Davis. Row 2: Braxton Bragg; PGT Beauregard; Second National CSA flag; John Bell Hood; John C. Breckenridge. Row 3: Wade Hampton; John S. Mosby; Robert E. Lee; Nathan B. Forrest; Thomas J. Jackson. Row 4: John C. Breckenridge; Sterling Price; Sterling Price; Wade Hampton; Edmund Kirby Smith. Row 5: Ben McCulloch; Alexander Stephens; (David E. Twiggs?); (William Stephen Walker?); William Carter Wickham. Row 6: Robert Rodes; Jubal Early; Robert E. Lee; George Pickett; Simon Bolivar Buckner. |
People |
Davies, Marie Middleton [Mrs. William W.] Davies, William W. |
Search Terms |
flag imagery Richmond, Virginia |