Baby's shirt
Category
Costume
Date
1779
Materials
Lace, Lawn linen
Measurements
270 mm (Length)480 mm (W)165 mm (Length)
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Killerton, Devon
NT 1363186
Summary
Baby's shirt of fine linen lawn, with open front and full gauged sleeves; Mechlin bobbin lace edging to neck and front opening and (different Mechlin) to cuff opening; hollie point panels inserted at shoulders with needle picot edging; embroidered buttoned wrist bands. 1779 (circa)
Provenance
made for donor's husbands great-great-great aunt's baby, the 13th Duke of Suffolk, who died at two days old in 1779.