This loosely woven textile fragment is printed with a vignette of a male lion attacking a zebra surrounded by flowering foliage in pink, green, purple and blue. A loose paper tag was inscribed by the donor [see Inscriptions and Media]. The stippled ground and outlines were cylinder printed, with color added by block printing and pencilling.
textiles
cotton (textile)
Sample, Material
Sample, Material
"Paper on Trunk/mid-1700/Woodward [illegible]/Early fabrics" (handwritten in pencil on loose label by collector)
Unknown
13 x 21 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1274
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