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Waistcoat, uncut
From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Panel of ivory silk satin embroidered with the left and right fronts of a gentleman's waistcoat, with stand collar, pocket welts, and button covers. The embroidery consists of an overall scattered floral with floral borders up the center front; on the pockets and at hem edge are scenes of monkeys drinking rum and playing musical instruments. In sixteen colors of floss silk.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionCredit lineWaistcoat, uncut. 1780–95. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf. CC0.
