Dress

Unknown

ca. 1820 · silk · Costume Institute

A dress that seems to step out of a Jane Austen novel combines the champagne-light coloring of spring with cream netting that buttresses décolletage and sheathes the sleeves. Similarly, abstracted leaf forms at hem and neckline make a subdued version, suitable to the Regency epoch, of a floral transfiguration.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1820

Medium

silk

Culture

American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1984