Artworks

Pablo Picasso

Text and cover with 67 wood engravings, bound with black tooled leather spine gilded with the title, artist and date, and corners over canvas-covered boards embellished with an impression of the cover wood engraving in gold. 12 etchings hors-texte stored separately. · 1931

Herman A. Elsberg, American

woven textiles, textile — medium: silk and metallic threads technique: cut and voided supplementary warp pile in a plain compound foundation (velvet) · 1919

Herman A. Elsberg, American

sample books, samples — medium: silk warp, cotton weft technique: cut and voided supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a satin foundation · 1919

Herman A. Elsberg, American

woven textiles, textile — medium: silk, metallic technique: cut and voided supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a plain compound foundation · 1915

Herman A. Elsberg, American

woven textiles, textile — medium: silk technique: cut, uncut and voided supplementary warp pile in a plain weave foundation (ciselé velvet) · 1915

Herman A. Elsberg, American

woven textiles, textile — medium: silk technique: cut and voided supplementary warp pile (velvet) in plain weave foundation · 1915

Herman A. Elsberg, American

Medium: silk, metal wrapped cotton core Technique: cut and voided supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a plain compound foundation · 1915

Gavin Morton

Cotton, plain weave foundation with supplementary weft patterning · 1905

Eadweard J. Muybridge

Albumen silver print from a wet-collodion glass negative, print date 1881 · 1878

Francisca Herrera Piebla

embroidery & stitching, sampler — medium: cotton embroidery on cotton foundation technique: embroidered in withdrawn element work on plain weave foundation · 1864

Anna Joaquina Aguirre y Guadalajara

embroidery & stitching, sampler — medium: glass beads and silk embroidery on cotton foundation technique: embroidered in cross, long-armed cross, and overcasting sewing on beads, on plain weave foundation · 1860

I & L Simpson

printed, dyed & painted textiles, fragment with factory marks — medium: cotton technique: roller printed with color added by block on plain weave foundation · 1858

James Robertson

Book of photographs (24) on lightly albumenized paper from collodian negatives, dated 1855; bound in leather · 1855

Shoolbreds & Co.

printed, dyed & painted textiles, fragment — medium: cotton technique: roller printed on plain weave foundation · 1850

Hinduism

Cotton foundation, drawn work, silk embroidery, and mirrors · 1850

Miles & Edwards, 1847

printed, dyed & painted textiles, fragment with factory stamp — medium: cotton technique: block printed on plain weave foundation. block registration marks are visible. blocks for ten different colors were used. four bands of red weft (now faded) were woven into fabric at heading. · 1830

Miles & Edwards, 1847

printed, dyed & painted textiles, fragment — technique: block printed on plain weave foundation; block registration marks visible · 1830

Miles & Edwards, 1847

printed, dyed & painted textiles, fragment with factory stamp — medium: cotton technique: block printed on plain weave foundation; block registration marks visible · 1830

Lucy C. Berry

embroidery & stitching, map sampler — medium: silk embroidery, watercolor paint, silk foundation technique: embroidered in stem, satin, laid, and back stitches on plain weave, painted label: silk embroidered with silk in stem, satin, laid, and back stitches, with watercolor paint · 1824

C. Widmer

printed, dyed & painted textiles, textile — medium: cotton technique: block printed in red on a plain weave foundation that had been dyed gold. a mark where the fabric was secured from the gold dye bath is at both of the lower corners. woven with one band of heavier weft at the bottom of the fabric. · 1820

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French

printed, dyed & painted textiles, textile — medium: cotton technique: printed by engraved plate on plain weave foundation · 1811

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French

printed, dyed & painted textiles, fragments — medium: cotton technique: printed by engraved plate on plain weave foundation · 1806

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French

printed, dyed & painted textiles, fragment — medium: cotton technique: printed by engraved plate on plain weave foundation · 1805

Anna Maria Blagg, English

embroidery & stitching, sampler — medium: silk, linen technique: cross stitch embroidery on plain weave foundation · 1804