Dress Fabric
1740 (made)
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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.
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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. |
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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 |
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Associated object | 5981:8/A (Object) |
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Accession number | T.219-1989 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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