Skirt panel

Anna Maria Garthwaite

1749 · Silk · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Garthwaite's career as a silk designer is well documented, and many of her original designs, including that for this brocaded dress silk, are preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The naturalistically rendered flowers are typical of her work, which epitomizes high quality English silk weaving of the 18th century.

Artist

Anna Maria Garthwaite

Date

1749

Medium

Silk

Culture

British, London, Spitalfields

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 2004