Woman's Dress (Robe à l'anglaise)

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Woman's Dress (Robe à l'anglaise)

Silk: c. 1742-1745; Dress: c. 1740-1750

Artist/maker unknown, American and English

The design of this fabric with large flowers and meandering ribbons is similar in style to those created between 1742 and 1745 by the foremost English silk designer of the eighteenth century, Anna Marie Garthwaite. Garthwaite's dated pattern books from about 1726 to 1756 provide a guide to the dating of surviving English silk fabrics, the designs of which changed seasonally.

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Object Details

Title:

Woman's Dress (Robe à l'anglaise)

Date:

Silk: c. 1742-1745; Dress: c. 1740-1750

Artist:

Artist/maker unknown, American and English

Medium:

Silk lampasette brocaded with colored silks

Dimensions:

Center Back Length: 58 inches (147.3 cm)

Classification:

Costume (including accessories)

Credit Line:

Gift of Ronald Schloesser, Kenneth Schloesser, Louis Schloesser, and David Akers in memory of Mildred Schloesser Hobson, 1995

Accession Number:

1995-98-8

Geography:

Made in Spitalfields (silk), London, England, Europe Assembled in United States, North and Central America

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