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Culture:English
Title:cotton fragment: Children's Games
Date Made:ca. 1790
Type:Textile
Materials:textile: cotton
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:overall: 15 x 31 in.; 38.1 x 78.74 cm
Accession Number:  HD 86.071
Credit Line:Gift of Mary Hawks
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Fragment of copperplate printed, red and white cotton in a pattern known as "Children's Games" (see also HD F.354A in brown and white). These vignettes include playing marbles and see-saw, the designs for which were derived from Bartlozzi's prints. The piece is machine stitched to white cotton textile at each end, and there a three blue threads in the selvage indicating an English origin.

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games

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