Fragment of a Hanging

1. Private collection, Switzerland [this and the following according to a report from Edward Merrin Gallery, Oct. 20, 1982; copy in curatorial object file]. Private collection, midwest United States; consigned with unknown dealer, United States; sold to Edward H. Merrin Gallery, New York, July 1982 [letter from E. Merrin, Sept. 22, 1982; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institue of Chicago, 1982.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Gift, Bequest and Purchase: A Selection of Textile Acquisitions from 1982–1987," Mar. 18–Aug. 14, 1989.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times Through the 19th Century," Sept. 27, 1989–Jan. 22, 1990.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago's Collection," Feb. 17–May 2, 1993.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Gallery 153, Apr. 7–July 13, 1994.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 141, “Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Sept. 20, 2004–Jan. 4, 2005.
• Washington DC, George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum (organized with Dumbarton Oaks), "Woven Interiors: Furnishing Early Medieval Egypt," Aug. 31, 2019-Jan. 5, 2020), cat.

• The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1982-1983): 18, fig. 23 (ill.).
• Christa C. Mayer Thurman, "Some Major Textile Acquisitions from Europe and Egypt," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 11, no. I (Fall 1984): 52-69, fig. 1 (ill.).
• "An Important Acquisition. The Art Institute of Chicago," HALI Magazine 7, no. 2, issue 26 (April/May/June 1985).
• Christa Mayer Thurman, Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 10-11, 143 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), 223 (ill.).
• "Portion of Hanging with Warrior," The Essential Guide (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 318 (ill.).
• Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2012), 102-103, cat. 25 (ill.).
• Gudrun Bühl, Sumru Belger Krody, and Elizabeth Dospěl Williams, Woven Interiors: Furnishing Early Medieval Egypt, exh. cat. (Washington, DC: The Textile Museum, 2019), 60-61, cat. 23 (ill.).