Overcoat

Unknown

1835–45 · wool · Costume Institute

This nicely tailored overcoat evokes a grand presence representative of its period. This would have been worn by a fashionable gentleman to protect his more delicate suit from the newfound repercussions of industrialization such as engine smoke.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1835–45

Medium

wool

Culture

American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Brooklyn Museum Collection