Open robe
Category
Costume
Date
1785 - 1795
Materials
Cotton, Silk
Measurements
710 mm (W)
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348736
Summary
Dress; Open robe - Copper plate printed cotton. Brown on white, scenes from the Odyssey. 3 blue threads in selvedge. Bodice and sleeves lined with unbleached cotton. Bodice - low, curved neckline, edge-to-edge opening. No underarm seam. Back - one large panel to show printed scene. Pointed waist centre back. Shoulder piece widens towards back. Sleeves - 3 tucks at head. Straight to shaped elbow (one sleeve has wide, shaped cuff). Remains of cream silk ribbon edging trim to remaining cuff. No fastenings. Cf Victoria and Albert Museum 'English Printed Textiles' refers to Florence Montgomery 'Printed Textiles - English and American Cottons and Linens Fig. 289. Wade Catalogue number E.22 "Cotton gown, printed with figure groups, ships, trees etc - an example of Toile de Jouy, or cloth printed from engraved copper plates at the works of Oberkampf at Jouy in the Valley of Bivere near Versailles. The cloths of Oberkampfare nearly always printed in red or blue and later in mauve, but the rarest of his colours is buff. c.1770" Bought from F.W. Phillips for £4.15.0
Provenance
bought from F W Phillips, The Manor House, Hitchin, Hertfordshire for £4.15.0. Bill dated Jan 1913. CW E22
References
Jane Ashleford, The Art of Dress. Clothes and Society 1500-1914, The National Trust, 1996, p.169-170.