Dress in two parts (dress)
- English or French, about 1790
- England or France
- Dimensions
- Center front: 149 cm (58 11/16 in.)
- Medium or Technique
- Silk
- Classification
- Costumes
- Accession Number
- 52.113a
- Not on view
Mon–Tue:10 am–4:45 pm;
Wed–Fri: 10 am–9:45 pm;
Sat–Sun: 10 am–4:45 pm
Dress and matching petticoat of blue and rose changeable, heavily ribbed silk; English back, with slight train; low cut neck trimmed with contemporary brocaded silk gauze ruffle; elbow length sleeves; dress closes in front of bodice; front lower edge of bodice trimmed with three tabs on each side; full, plain petticoat. Note: ruffle on underskirt is a reconstruction.
Samuel Putnam Avery Fund
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