Border with Rosettes and Oak Leaves

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Border with Rosettes and Oak Leaves

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Date
c. 1800-1805
Medium
Cotton; copperplate printed
Culture
France
Department
Textiles
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
256785

The late 18th and early 19th centuries were an incredibly fertile period for innovation in the European textile industries, especially in the field of direct printing. Decades of experimentation led to the development of a variety of ways to apply color and pattern to cloth, which enabled artists and designers to invent new design vocabularies and quickly respond to cultural trends and ideas. One of the most enduring of these innovations was the ability to print on cloth with copperplates and then subsequently with engraved copper metal rollers. The quality of detail achieved through this method was unrivaled in terms of clarity, precision.

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Credit line
Elizabeth M. Schultz Endowment Fund
Provenance
Possibly acquired from Elinor Merrell (died 1993), New York, by 1995 [this and the following according to email from T. Halle to M. Watt on Apr. 1, 2020; Halle describes that Cora Ginsburg LLC purchased the object from “Irene” in 1995; copy in curatorial object file]. Sold to Cora Ginsburg LLC, New York, 1995; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

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Object type
AAT300014063

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