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Apron, reproduction dress, shoes, and pair of earrings
c. 1830s
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Hartford, United States
Apron, 1833. American. Embroidered silk. This embroidered silk apron was a gift to Frances Ann Dorr from her fiancé, Peter Freeman, who purchased it in 1833 at a fair to benefit what is now the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston.
Reproduction dress
Shoes, c. 1830s. American. Kid leather.
Pair of earrings, c. 1830s. Barbados. Gold and chalcedony.
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- Title: Apron, reproduction dress, shoes, and pair of earrings
- Date Created: c. 1830s
- Location Created: United States, Barbados
- Provenance: Apron- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. Gift of Miss Ruth Wolcott, 1968.225 Shoes- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. Purchased from Mrs. Frances Edwards from Keney Fund, 1946.130–131 Pair of earrings- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. Gift of Mrs. Gurdon W. Russell, 1918.1619–1620
- Type: Costume
- Original Source: Apron- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. Gift of Miss Ruth Wolcott, 1968.225 Shoes- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. Purchased from Mrs. Frances Edwards from Keney Fund, 1946.130–131 Pair of earrings- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. Gift of Mrs. Gurdon W. Russell, 1918.1619–1620
- Medium: Silk, leather, gold, chalcedony
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