HANDKERCHIEF
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
The handkerchief seems to have been made in connection with the Risorgimento in Italy. There are four scenes, one on each side. View 1 has a view of St. Peter's in Rome with people in the Square in front of it. View 2 shows two men on horseback entering the city walls and being greeted by people. View 3 has a view of the facade of St. John Latern Church with a coach on one side and people on the other. View 4 shows an attack on the city with a fortress on a hill and soliders with cannons and guns. Each section is separated by poles with a flag hanging from it. The border is scalloped and has two leafy borders enclosing circular lace designs. The designs are interspersed with flowers that hang form the upper border. The center is empty.
- Object name:
- HANDKERCHIEF
- Made from:
- Linen -- lace
- Made in:
- Rome, Italy
- Date made:
- 1870
- Size:
- 44.5 × 44.5 cm (17 1/2 × 17 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 45.2
- Class:
- LACE
- Signature marks:
- INSCRIPTION; SIGNATURE view 1: Chiesa di S. Pietro in Roma; view 2: Entrata delle truppe Italiano in Roma; view 3: St. Giovanni Laterno in Roma; view 4: Bombardimento e presso di Porta Pia in Roma in two corners: WL ITALIA
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973