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Waistcoat fronts
From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Two fronts of a gentleman's waistcoat, with no collar, cut-away hem edge, and shaped pocket flaps, embroidered in twenty-four colors of silk, on an ivory silk ground. Overall tiny floral sprig, floral border at center front edges, floral sprigs and swagged garlands at lower edge.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionCredit lineWaistcoat fronts. 1770–80. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf. CC0.
