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Not currently on display at the V&A

Shirt

1800-1900 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Front of a man's shirt, of fine cambric embroidered with white cotton thread. Down the middle is a narrow band with three button-holes, decorated with flowers and festoons. On either side are leafy scrollwork and interlacing floral stems amongst which are a cavalier and lady on horseback, two men with hawks on their wrists, hounds, and suspended pheasants.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Cambric embroidered with cotton thread
Brief description
Front of a man's shirt, cambric embroidered with cotton thread, Ireland or Great Britain, 1800-1900
Physical description
Front of a man's shirt, of fine cambric embroidered with white cotton thread. Down the middle is a narrow band with three button-holes, decorated with flowers and festoons. On either side are leafy scrollwork and interlacing floral stems amongst which are a cavalier and lady on horseback, two men with hawks on their wrists, hounds, and suspended pheasants.
Dimensions
  • Length: 14in
  • Width: 8.5in
Object history
Purchased. Registered File number 20387/1902.

The shirt was said to have been "found behind a fireplace during the demolition of a Berkshire farm-house." (See RPs 88589/1902, 23239/1902 and 18591/1902)
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
740-1902

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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