1868
Dress (child’s)
The dress is cream silk with black and pink 1/2” woven pane check. Short puff sleeves and pleated CF and also CB between a 2” wide boat neck yolk and a 1 1/2” band belt, but smooth flat panel on sides. Structured linen bodice underneath. Skirt is gathered onto the waistband. Made in 1850s.
Worn by Harriet Lydia Clark for a portrait painted by Alice Wetmore inn 1907. She is a young girl of 13 years of age. Hand-me-down dress from her mother, Mary Lydia Brown who married in 1882 to Andrew Miles Clark. Mary wore the dress for a photograph when she was 5 years old, making the date of the dress approximately 1868.
Provenance:
Schur, Susan Clark and David Clark from the Clark Family, Cornwall, CT
Construction Label:
2006C 1868.9
The dress is cream silk with black and pink 1/2” woven pane check. Short puff sleeves and pleated CF and also CB between a 2” wide boat neck yolk and a 1 1/2” band belt, but smooth flat panel on sides. Structured linen bodice underneath. Skirt is gathered onto the waistband. Made in 1850s.
Worn by Harriet Lydia Clark for a portrait painted by Alice Wetmore inn 1907. She is a young girl of 13 years of age. Hand-me-down dress from her mother, Mary Lydia Brown who married in 1882 to Andrew Miles Clark. Mary wore the dress for a photograph when she was 5 years old, making the date of the dress approximately 1868.
Provenance:
Schur, Susan Clark and David Clark from the Clark Family, Cornwall, CT
Construction Label:
2006C 1868.9