Design for a Waistcoat
date: label: Date
content: 1780-1790
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design and sketch for the embroidery of men's waistcoats. Recto: A dark blue and violet stripe are at left. Beside these are to alternate a flower bunch and a flower bough of which two are shown. Plants of two different designs each growing beneath two netted wings form vertical staggered rows. Flower boughs are shown in the intervals. Verso: The pocket and the field show plants frowing from scalloped panels.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Jacob H. Schiff
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1906-21-213
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black crayon, various gouache colors on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 20.9 × 26.9 cm (8 1/4 × 10 9/16 in.)