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Skirt Panel for a Woman's Sack Gown
Anna Maria Garthwaite (Woven by Daniel Vautier (English, active 1741–51); Spitalfields, England)
Design March 1, 1749
- Medium
- Silk, plain weave foundation with supplementary patterning warps and supplementary brocading wefts
- Classification
- Costume and Accessories
- Dimensions
- 114.7 × 51 cm (45 1/8 × 20 1/8 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 66.1 cm (26 in.)
- Culture
- England
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Mildred L. Davison Memorial Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Anna Maria Garthwaite is one of only a handful of 18th-century textile designers whose names we know today. Her carefully annotated drawings (in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London) reveal her thorough understanding of European weaving technology. Her naturalistic and delicate floral fabrics have come to epitomize English taste of the mid-18th century. Evidence of this fabric’s use for a skirt can be seen at the top of the panel, where it was gathered into a seam at the waistline.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
