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Christening dress and matching guimpe (guimpe)

about 1873
Object PlaceFrance
Medium/TechniqueCotton with cotton embroidery, smocking, and linen bobbin lace
Dimensions23.5 x 52.5 cm (9 1/4 x 20 11/16 in.). L. of guimpe from center front of neck to lower edge of hem .184 M.
Credit LineGift of Miss Amy B. Edmond
Accession number42.427b
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Not on view
ClassificationsCostumes
Child's dress
first half of 19th century
Child's dress
first half of 19th century
Child's smock
Early 20th century
Child's dress
first half of 19th century
early 20th century
Child's dress
second quarter of 19th century
View: 56.1311a-b
mid-19th century
Infant's bonnet
Early 19th century
Infant's christening dress
second quarter of 19th century
Infant's dress
first half of 19th century