Parasol

Unknown

ca. 1790 · silk, metal, wood, baleen, ivory · Costume Institute

Featured is an example of an eighteenth century parasol with a canopy that was replaced at a later date, probably late 19th century. The repairer's label is still attached. Of particular interest are the whalebone rather than metal ribs and the hand-made bone or ivory ribs which vary in shape. During this period, whalebone was commonly used in corsets as support material.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1790

Medium

silk, metal, wood, baleen, ivory

Culture

American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Virginia Putnam, 1968