Waistcoat
1780s
Medium/TechniqueSilk; brocaded
Dimensions66 cm (26 in.); Legacy dimension: .66 from the shoulder to the bottom of the garment
Credit LineGift of the Misses Sara, Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Norton
Accession number17.1443
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Provenance1770s/1780s, Matthew Ridley (b. 1746 - d. 1789), Baltimore; by descent to his daughter, Susan Anne Livingston Ridley (Mrs. Theodore Sedgwick; b. 1788 - d. 1867), Stockbridge, MA; to her son, Theodore Sedgwick, III (b. 1811 - d. 1859), Stockbridge; to his daughter, Susan Ridley Sedgwick (Mrs. Charles Eliot Norton; b. 1838 - d. 1872), Cambridge, MA; to her daughters, Sara, Elizabeth, and Margaret Norton, Cambridge; 1917, gift of Sara, Elizabeth, and Margaret Norton to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 5, 1917)
1880
1750–70
about 1730
about 1700
about 1740, with later alterations