Gloves
Unknown
late 18th century · leather, silk · Costume Institute
The embroidered figure on these gloves is a lady in court dress complete with the fontanges, the hairstyle in vogue during the first decade of the eighteenth century. It is unusual to find a historical costume depicted on a fashionable accessory. It must have amused the lady who wore the gloves to compare the style of her grandmother’s day to the attire of her own time.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- late 18th century
- Medium
- leather, silk
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1923
