Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE: Queen Victoria Coronation Prints

Queen Victoria Coronation Commemorative Print

1838

Cut out and appliqued to a quilt block.

Collection International Quilt Study Center & Museum # 1997.007.0479

A second chintz quilt with a similar figure from Ohio in the IQSCM collection.

This is #2001.015.001

http://www.quiltstudy.org/exhibitions/online_exhibitions/chintz/applique_quilts3.html

A third American quilt with a different coronation print.

This one is the 1843 Sarah Morrell album in the collection

of the American Museum of Folk Art.

A fourth:

Displayed last month at the Munson, Williams, Proctor Art Institute

in Utica, New York.

The cotton was probably printed in 1838 for the June event.

The print features a monochrome scene in a field of full-color chintz in the quilt above.

This print seems to be more common than the other, done in several colorways.

The seated Queen is surrounded by courtiers as she is crowned.

Center of a British quilt with a coronation print in the center.

Collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum.

See the whole quilt here:

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O166083/bed-cover-unknown/

The Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt Museum has a large piece with a light ground

and limited color - half chintz.

Same scene but a variation with a

a fancy background

of diamond shaped netting.

That detail comes from this whole-cloth quilt of the yardage.

The Lion in the English coat of arms overlooks the scene.

I've found two Coronation commemorative handkerchiefs,

the blue one above in the collection

of the Victoria and Albert.

The red one from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

I bet there were more cotton prints produced.

And more quilts made featuring them.

Monday, May 22, 2017