Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1790
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Five buttonholes are shown over a rectangular violet and yellow edged corner at left. A black, yellow edged moulding connects the inner ends of the botton holes and is to run parallel to the bottom edge of the waistcoat. Blue feathery wreaths and three dots are to alternate as decorations of the moulding, from the inner side of which boughs grow. Flower boughs are shown between the buttonholes. The field is to be decorated with rows of three dots alternating in alternative rows with a leaf bough and with a half flower plant.
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: 1906-21-214
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and gouche, white on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 19.3 × 28.5 cm (7 5/8 × 11 1/4 in.)