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Dress
American
about 1800
Object Place: United States
Medium/Technique
Embroidered gauze
Dimensions
2.17 length of skirt (including train).
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Alexander Winsor
Accession Number47.1281
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionWoman's gown Ground: cream-colored lace muslin (cotton gauze with open-work pattern). Design: flowers, leaves, heads of grain, embroidered down the front and around bottom of skirt, with coarse cream-colored cotton, inlaid, outline, button-hole, and knot stitches. Gown made with short-waist, short sleeves, and train. Belonged to Mrs. Moses Levy (Mary Pearce) of Blatimore, 1762-1850. Upper part remodeled, pink ribbon added.
ProvenanceLent by Mrs. Robert Hale Bancroft, April 15, 1929. Transferred to Mrs. Elizabeth Hope Winsor, November 30, 1938.