Woman's dress
Mehetable Stoddard (Hyslop)
(American, 1719–1792)
1840s
Place of Manufactureprobably France (fabric)
Place of UseBoston, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/TechniqueSilk plain weave patterned with weft floats and discontinuous supplementary patterning weft; cotton plain weave lining (bodice); metal hooks and eyes (bodice)
DimensionsOther (center front of bodice): 34.9 cm (13 3/4 in.)
Other (skirt): 104.1 cm (41 in.)
Other (fragment): 15.6 x 34.4 cm (6 1/8 x 13 9/16 in.)
Other (skirt): 104.1 cm (41 in.)
Other (fragment): 15.6 x 34.4 cm (6 1/8 x 13 9/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Emily Welles Robbins (Mrs. Harry Pelham Robbins) and the Hon. Sumner Welles, in memory of Georgiana Welles Sargent
Accession number49.872a-c
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ProvenanceMay have been worn by Mehetable Stoddard Hyslop (1719-1792) of Boston; Inherited by her great-granddaughter Miss Georgiana Welles Sargent (born 1858) of New York City, who wore it in to a family dinner in 1931; Gift of Emily Welles Robbins (Mrs. Harry Pelham Robbins) and the Hon. Sumner Welles, in memory of Georgiana Welles Sargent, to MFA 1949
about 1850
around 1800