Nightgown
1750-1799 (resist-dyeing), 1800-1840 (sewing)
| Place of origin |
The design has a chain of intertwining branches with three alternating clumps of flowers and foliage at regular intervals. Meandering arounmd the chain are very slender flowering branches. Two of the clumps of flowers and foliage are reversed and occur in the side borders of the hanging. The gown is a fitted one and in the style of the 1840s.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | painted and dyed cotton |
| Brief description | M, 1800-1840, British?, resist-dyed cotton, 1750-99, India |
| Physical description | The design has a chain of intertwining branches with three alternating clumps of flowers and foliage at regular intervals. Meandering arounmd the chain are very slender flowering branches. Two of the clumps of flowers and foliage are reversed and occur in the side borders of the hanging. The gown is a fitted one and in the style of the 1840s. |
| Bibliographic reference | Irwin, John and Katherine Brett, Origins of Chintz, London, 1970. With a catalogue of Indo-European cotton-paintings in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. ISBN 112900534.
p. 127, cat. no. 179, pl. 150b |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.49-1951 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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