Flat-quilted bedcover and bed curtain
Made for the Hynde Cotton family, Cambridgeshire
1725-50
These hangings were originally part of a set owned by the Hynde Cotton family. Sir John Hynde Cotton (1686-1752) was an MP and leading Tory opponent of Sir Robert Walpole. A 1734 inventory of the family home, Madingley Hall in Cambridgeshire, shows that its 36 rooms were furnished to the height of luxury. Its bedrooms were named according to the colour of their textiles.
Linen
Given by G.H.G. Norman
V&A: T.386&A-1970 [20th March 2010]