Dress
By the 1880s, an American dress such as this one gave obvious clues of eighteenth-century revival: the polonaise at the back and lace garnissements. Antithetically, Victorian America did not wholly yield to the rococo, and a dour brown velvet and high neckline bespeak a much more reserved and bourgeois culture. The dressmaker's label is "M. A. Connelly, 7 East 16th Street, New York."
Artwork Details
- Title: Dress
- Designer: M. A. Connelly (American (born Ireland), County Cork 1834–1958 New York)
- Date: 1882–86
- Culture: American
- Medium: silk
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb, 1939
- Object Number: C.I.39.100.4a, b
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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