Design for a Waistcoat
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for the embroidery at the left bottom corner of a man's waistcoat. Part of the pocket is outlined with pencil, the other part with a brown stripe. A moulding with scallops is at the edge of the waistcoat. Moss plants grown between feathery leaves from the bottom corners of the pocket. a bowl stands beneath the bottom point between leaf scrolls. Plants grow from the moulding in the rising part.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Jacob H. Schiff
- 1780-1790
- Accession Number
- 1906-21-207
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pencil and various gouache colors on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.7 × 34.7 cm (6 15/16 × 13 11/16 in.)
- made in
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1906-21-207
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq481243565-a3bb-4f1e-9fe5-b1167d25949a
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