- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Two printed and embroidered blue, white, brown and gold squares.
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Duncan MacPherson
- Field collector Duncan MacPherson's daughter
- PRM source Mary Louisa Sturrock
- Date / Period
- Date made: Circa 1841
- Date collected
- circa 1841
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1945
- Materials and processes
- Material Textile, Material Damask Textile, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Embroidered, Process Printed, Process Woven
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1945.2.48
- Research and responses
Mrs W.D. Sturrock undoubtedly refers to Mary Macpherson, wife of William Duncan Sturrock (1880 - 1942) See biographies database for further details [L.Ph 26/3/2004]
Search terms: Textile, Marriage, Figure, Bird Figure
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