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Infant's dress

probably American
1800–12
Object Place: United States

Medium/Technique Cotton figured weave with cotton tambour embroidery and linen tape closures
Dimensions 84.5 x 69 cm (33 1/4 x 27 3/16 in.)
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 Number44.18
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsCostumes

DescriptionLong waisted long dress (originally open all the way down the back but now sewed part of the way up), white India mull with woven stripes and floral sprigs embroidered in white cotton thread in chain stitch. Sleeves have been cut.