Evening gloves

Unknown

1805 · leather · Costume Institute

All hand sewn, the construction of the gloves is particularly detailed for the period. Between each finger are small diamond-shaped gussets (quirks) which would have required considerable skill to fashion in leather.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1805

Medium

leather

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 the Jason and Peggy Westerfield Collection, 1969