Collecting and Disseminating Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Krimmel, John Lewis

The Quilting Frolic

"“The Quilting Frolic” (1813), painting by John Lewis Krimmel (American, born in Germany, 1786–1821), oil on canvas, 42.5 x 56.5 cm. Trained in Stuttgart and London, the artist immigrated in 1809 to Philadelphia, where he was active until his death in 1821. This painting illustrates the expansion of the transatlantic world of goods. Imported objects such as the tea set seen here (being carried by an African-American girl) were not restricted to the elite in American society. This image of frontier life also shows how objects infiltrated the remote regions of the nation. Archeological digs have also unearthed the fact that Native Americans used objects such as imported tea cups."
(Yokota, Unbecoming British, 83.)

1813

"The Quilting Frolic." WikiArt. https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-lewis-krimmel/the-quilting-frolic-1813.

Fahringer, Alyssa

Yokota, Kariann. Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation." New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Painting; oil on canvas; 42.5 x 56.5 cm