Yardage; printed cotton textile with red designs on beige ground including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and phrases included "Stamp Act," "Liberty Tree," "American Independence 1776," and "Where Liberty Dwells There Is My Country;" 78 x 169 centimeters.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
England
Verbatim coll. place:
England unspecified
Culture or time period:
English
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
pre-1909
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1909
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Comment:
Printed in England for export to the United States of America circa 1785. Pattern known as "Apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.
Loans:
S1976-1977 #25: Oakland Museum of California (November 12, 1976–February 1, 1977)