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Detail: Pattern
Dress
American (Massachusetts)
1740–50 remodeled about 1840
Object Place: Spitalfields, England
Medium/Technique
Brocaded silk
Dimensions
L. from center front of neck to center front bottom of skirt, about 1 M 230.
Credit Line
Gift of the children of Mrs. M. A. DeWolfe Howe (Fanny Huntington Quincy), Miss Helen H. Howe, Quincy Howe, and Mark DeWolfe Howe
Accession Number44.7
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionDeep cream finely ribbed silk ground with large-scale flowers, foliage and ornamental scrolls brocaded in brilliant polychrome silks; small details of design in ground figure. Narrow ruffles of bobbin lace on sleeves. Fabric is English Spitalfields silk. Remodeled about 1840.