Description:
Two English sepia (brown) copperplate-printed, plain weave cotton pieces from a set of bed furnishings printed with a scene of "Blindman's Buff" with three young women in a garden setting, one of whom is wearing a blindfold searching for the other two, alternating with a scene of "The Judgment of Paris." One piece has two sections sewn together and is backed with brown cotton. The donor, Margaret Harris Allen, whose mother descended from Asa Stebbins (1767-1844), identified the pieces as part of a bedset owned by Asa Stebbins. Mrs. Amelia Miller gave two pieces (HD F.870 and 870A) with the same Blindman's Buff design and appearing to be from the same fabric to Historic Deerfield, which she received from Gillette Griffin; they were given to Mr. Griffin by a member of an old Deerfield family. Although Mrs. Miller thought they were in the little brown house on Albany Road and possibly came from the Fuller family, Peter Spang thought they were from the Stebbins-Allen descendants. The figures are not children, indicating an earlier period of "game" scenes. Possibly also numbered F.773/A?
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Copper; Cotton Link to share this object record:
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