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Description: | Day dress in cotton muslin, with a dark brown ground resist printed with stylised white trailing floral sprigs.
Bodice and sleeves lined with white cotton. Back fastening with seven metal hooks and eyes; eyes sewn 1 inch from edge for concealment, additional one at waist sewn externally. High rounded neck with a wide sloping shoulder. Narrow pagoda style sleeve with slight gathering on inner seam and double self flounces. Plain full skirt gathered at waist with white cotton inner facing towards hem. Slit in seam behind right side for pocket.
This dress belonged to Cicely Farrar, who figured in Mrs. Sidney Potter' "Lancashire Memories". She was lady's maid to Mrs. Weston, and married Bass William, the clerk of Stand Chapel. She died in 1859.
Technique: printed
Material: muslin
Material: cotton
dress, 1847-1849, (1922.1760). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.15209 | Go to resource |
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