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A wedding dress of white mull
American
About 1800
Object Place: USA
Medium/Technique
Cotton mull; embroidered
Dimensions
123.7 cm (48 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Dows Dunham
Accession Number52.1664a
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionEmbroidered with heavy white cotton in large-scale relief design of grapes, square cut neck with drawstrings, very short sleeves, plain in front with fullness all gathered to back, longer in back to form train; many details of embroidered design, such as large leaves, some blossoms formed by drawn work in the mull or set in filet and bobbin lace; much yellowed; several breaks, most of them carefully darned near lower edge of train.
ProvenanceSaid to have been worn by Dolly Vaughan.