Seven Borders

Belgium

textilelace - bobbin

Date

1850/75

Medium

Cotton, bobbin straight lace of a type known as "Valenciennes" with a square Valenciennes mesh ground

Dimensions

a: 9.5 × 345.6 cm (3 3/4 × 136 in.) b: 9.1 × 96.7 cm (3 5/8 × 38 1/8 in.) c: 8.8 × 95.2 cm (3 1/2 × 37 1/2 in.) d: 8.8 × 71.1 cm (3 1/2 × 28 in.) e: 8.3 × 71.6 cm (3 1/4 × 28 1/2 in.) f: 8.7 × 29.2 cm (3 1/2 × 11 1/2 in.) g: 9.4 × 27.1 cm (3 5/8 × 10 5/8 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Gift of Mrs. William Bentley Walker

Also notable

Works in the same vein

In Belgium

Louis Raemaekers Dutch, 1869-1956

Still Life with Fish and Shells

James Ensor (Belgian, 1860–1949)

"De Panne, Belgium, August 7, 1992," from Beach Portraits

Rineke Dijkstra Dutch, born 1959