Nineteenth-century American Quilts

Some choice highlights from the Metropolitan Museum’s superb collection of 151 American quilts and coverlets, most hailing from the nineteenth entry. Included in the selection is Adeline Harris Sears’ stunning “Autographs Quilt”, a wonderful trompe l’oeil tumbling block design which incorporates signatures from such luminaries as Jacob Grimm, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Abraham Lincoln (one of eight American presidents represented).