Portrait of Joseph-Marie Jacquard, 1839

Contact Us About This
THF150179 / Portrait of Joseph-Marie Jacquard, 1839
01

Artifact Overview

This portrait of French inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752 - 1834) was woven of fine silk using the mechanism that he developed and patented in 1804. Jacquard's device employs punched cards to store the intricate pattern design and to control the loom. These loom cards eventually led to the data cards used in early digital computers.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Portrait

Date Made

1839

Subject Date

1831

Creators

Place of Creation

Creator Notes

Produced by Didier Petit et Cie, Lyon, executed on a Jacquard loom by Michel-Marie Carquillat, based on the portrait of Jacquard by Claude Bonnefond

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

39.173.1

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Gabrielle Dannenfeld.

Material

Silk (Textile)

Dimensions

Height: 45 in
Width: 34 in

Inscriptions

Imprinted below portrait: À la Mémoire de J.M. Jacquard, Né à Lyon le 7 Juillet 1752, Mort le 7 Août 1834. Lyon: Didier Petit et Cie, 1839. Obverse: A LA MEMOIRE DE J. M. JACQUARD
Keywords
02

Related Content

  • IMSAI 8080 Microcomputer, Used with Home Built Interface and IBM Selectric Typewriter, Assembled in 1977
    Set

    Punch Card Technology

    • 10 Artifacts
    The IMSAI 8080 was a clone of the Altair 8800, the first mass marketed personal computer. It was a popular "kit computer," requiring assembly and programming. With no keyboard, toggle switches allowed input and LED lights signaled output. This could be modified using an IBM I/O typewriter. The donor, O.S. Narayanaswami, was a mechanical engineer interested in the educative power of computers.
    Read More
  • Peace and Plenty Coverlet, 1846
    Set

    From the Jacquard Loom

    • 18 Artifacts
    A coverlet is a decorative bedcovering--usually made of cotton and wool--woven on a loom. This "Peace and Plenty" coverlet expresses the optimism of a young America. This popular sentiment and the bird-and-bush Pennsylvania German border motif were used by a number of coverlet weavers, but were combined with different centerfield designs.
    Read More