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Woman's Dresscirca 1827

Not on view
Marigold-yellow dress with puffed sleeves, fitted bodice, and tiered skirt, printed with small floral sprigs and an overlaid dark grid pattern
Detail of a yellow silk dress displayed on a mannequin, showing a voluminous puffed sleeve and fitted bodice with a grid-patterned print featuring small figural and floral motifs in muted colors.
Textile with golden yellow ground, diagonal lattice of dotted lines forming a diamond grid, with small printed motifs of monkeys, foliage, and angular geometric outlines in green, brown, and gray scattered throughout.
Lightweight yellow fabric with a printed repeat pattern of small monkeys and bamboo sprigs arranged within a diagonal dashed-line grid, printed in muted purple and green.
Title
Woman's Dress
Place Made
Europe
Date Made
circa 1827
Medium
Silk and cotton gauze with silk supplementary warp and weft patterning, block-printed
Dimensions
Center back length: 49 in. (124.46 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Suzanne A. Saperstein and Michael and Ellen Michelson, with additional funding from the Costume Council, the Edgerton Foundation, Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer, Maureen H. Shapiro, Grace Tsao, and Lenore and Richard Wayne
Accession Number
M.2007.211.937
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne, 1700-1915. Paris: Arts Décoratifs; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books-Prestel, 2013.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2010.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Europäische Moden, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Prestel, 2012.