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Presentation Quilt for William A. Sargent
Members of the Freewill Baptist Church
Photographed…
Presentation Quilt for William A. Sargent
Presentation Quilt for William A. Sargent
Members of the Freewill Baptist Church
Photographed…
Presentation Quilt for William A. Sargent Members of the Freewill Baptist Church Photographed by Gavin Ashworth
Record Details

Presentation Quilt for William A. Sargent

DateBlocks made c. 1854; assembled and quilted later
Place/RegionLoudon, New Hampshire, United States
MediumCotton with ink and cotton embroidery
Dimensions81 × 79"
Credit LineGift of Cyril Irwin Nelson
Accession number2003.1.1
CopyrightThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.
Description

The blocks of this quilt were sewn as a gift for William A. Sargent, elder of the Freewill Baptist Church in Loudon, New Hampshire, when he became pastor of the second Gilmanton, New Hampshire, church in 1856. The pieces were assembled and quilted by his daughter, Clara Sargent Hickok, much later, in the 1930s.

Stacy C. Hollander, "Presentation Quilt for William A. Sargent," exhibition label for QUILTS: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2010.

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