Not currently on display at the V&A

Dress Fabric

1740 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dress fabric of silk, part of a dismembered petticoat. The ground is a finely ribbed cream silk brocaded in four shades of pink, white, yellow, black and brown. There are two complete loom widths with three green stripes in each selvedge, joined with smaller pieces patched together above as the petticoat is gathered into a waistband. There is a 1.5 inches frill of the same silk attached near the hem. The design of the silk is of meandering slender branches from which large non-naturalistic blooms are hanging. There is not a complete repeat in the silk.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Brocaded silk
Brief description
Dress fabric of brocaded silk, designed by Anna Maria Garthwaite for Captain Peter Lekeux, Spitalfields, 1740.
Physical description
Dress fabric of silk, part of a dismembered petticoat. The ground is a finely ribbed cream silk brocaded in four shades of pink, white, yellow, black and brown. There are two complete loom widths with three green stripes in each selvedge, joined with smaller pieces patched together above as the petticoat is gathered into a waistband. There is a 1.5 inches frill of the same silk attached near the hem. The design of the silk is of meandering slender branches from which large non-naturalistic blooms are hanging. There is not a complete repeat in the silk.
Dimensions
  • Width: 35in
  • Width: 89cm
  • Length: 41.5in
  • Length: 105.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Transliteration
Object history
Purchased. Registered File number 1989/866.

Another part of this petticoat is in the Royal Ontario Museum 968.36.1.
Production
Made for Captain Peter Lekeux
Subjects depicted
Associated object
5981:8/A (Object)
Collection
Accession number
T.219-1989

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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