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Pieties Quilt
Maria Cadman Hubbard
Photo by John Parnell
Pieties Quilt
Pieties Quilt
Maria Cadman Hubbard
Photo by John Parnell
Pieties Quilt Maria Cadman Hubbard Photo by John Parnell
Record Details

Pieties Quilt

Artist ((possibly 1769–?))
Date1848
Place/RegionProbably Austerlitz, New York, United States
MediumCotton
Dimensions88 1/2 × 81"
Credit LineGift of Cyril Irwin Nelson in loving memory of his parents, Cyril Arthur and Elise Macy Nelson
Accession number1984.27.1
CopyrightThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.
Description

Maria Cadman Hubbard included her name, her age (79), and the date (1848) alongside the biblical and secular sayings on this quilt and thereby provided clues that made it possible to locate her family almost 150 years after she had stitched her bedcover. Although the quilt had formerly been attributed to New England, it now is believed that Hubbard was a member of the Cadman family living in Austerlitz, Columbia County, New York, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A number of other mid-nineteenth-century quilts featuring a similar style of pieced lettering also have New York State provenances and may represent a regional tradition.

Elizabeth V. Warren, "Pieties Quilt," exhibition label for QUILTS: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum. Elizabeth V. Warren, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2010.

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