Mrs. Ella May Hinkal Youngman

Bedspread with Floral Embroidery and Handmade Lace

1882

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Mrs. Ella May Hinkal Youngman

Bedspread with Floral Embroidery and Handmade Lace

1882

Physical Qualities Silk ground, silk and chenille embroidery threads, cotton or linen lace, cotton lining, 74 1/2 x 94 in. (189.2 x 238.8 cm.)

Credit Line Gift of Ann Hege Hughes, Baltimore

Object Number 2015.375

Light blue/green silk satin bedspread embroidered with flowers in cream and white silk and chenille embroidery threads and trimmed with wide handmade lace. Plain beige twill lining. Machine stitched around outside edges.

The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift 2015; Ann Hege Hughes by inheritance; Mariam Freed Hege (1921-2012) by inheritance; Dorothy Youngman Freed by inheritance; Ella May Hinkal Youngman (1863-1950).

Graff, Joyce Wilcox and June Freed Wilcox, "A Freed Family History," Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. 1981, p. 130, illustrated.

Inscribed: Paper label attached