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Image courtesy of Fort Gansevoort.
Time Immemorial
Image courtesy of Fort Gansevoort.
Image courtesy of Fort Gansevoort.

Time Immemorial

Artist Zoë Buckman (English, born 1985)
CultureEnglish
Date2018
MediumEmbroidery on vintage linen tea towel
Dimensions27 × 14 3/4 in. (68.6 × 37.5 cm)
Overall, Frame: 31 1/8 × 18 1/2 in. (79.1 × 47 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2019.25
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, 310, ROW 44
DescriptionA hand-embroidered tea towel. The embroidery is black with both text and small objects in between the text and at the bottom. The borders of the tea towel run vertically along the longer edge. They are red and black, two thicker red lines with a link black line in the middle. The piece is within a white frame and under glass.
ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by the Chrysler Museum of Art (via the artist's gallery), 2019.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Trost Richards
ca. 1890s
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Mrs. Littleton Waller Tazewell
1810-30
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
1400-1500
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2013.
Adeline Myers
1798
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Unknown
19th century
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Betty Zoe Miller
1897-1971
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Worcester Porcelain Company
ca. 1760
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Worcester Porcelain Company
ca. 1760