Shawl ?

Possibly Ireland, Limerick

textilecostume accessory

Date

c. 1900

Medium

Cotton, machine-made net; embroidered in darning, flat, half-cross, overcast, satin, and wave filling stitches; edged in machine-made picot edging

Dimensions

249.3 × 70 cm (98 1/2 × 27 1/2 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Gift of Mrs. William Bentley Walker

Also notable

Works in the same vein

A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)

Teapot with Symbols of England, Ireland, and Scotland

Staffordshire, England