Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Thumbnail-size images of copyrighted artworks are displayed under fair use, in accordance with guidelines recommended by the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts, published by the College Art Association in February 2015.

Length of dress fabric: Show Boat on the Mississippi, from the Early American series

Designed by: Walter Mitschke (American (born in Germany), 1886–1972)
Designed for: H. R. Mallinson and Company (American, 1915–1936)
American
1927
Object Place: New York, New York, Untied States

Medium/Technique Silk plain weave; printed
Dimensions Height x width: 19 1/2 x 33 1/2 in. (49.5 x 85.1 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Robert and Joan Brancale
Accession Number2008.1946
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTextilesPrinted

DescriptionPeach-colored ground with boats, flowers, figures, cherry trees, trees with Spanish moss. Selvedge reads "Mallinson's Early American -- A show boat on the Mississippi."
ProvenanceEx-collection Walter Mitschke, New York; by descent to Ethel B. Adams Waldorf; between 1985-90, gift of Waldorf to her neice Joan Brancale, Hingham, MA; gift of Brancale to the MFA (Accession date: December 31, 2008)