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Knee breeches
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Knee breeches

1770–89
Medium/TechniqueSilk voided velvet with uncut pile
DimensionsOverall: 16.5cm (6 1/2in.)
Length: 67.3 cm (26 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Misses Sara, Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Norton
Accession number17.1441c
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ClassificationsCostumes
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)