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Album of designs for embroidery: bodices, gauntlets, caps, bags, page 45 (recto)

Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century.

From top to bottom, and left to right:

Design appears to be unfinished. It is decorated with a pattern of leaf-shaped flowers, which are surrounded by other foliage elements.

Credit: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955...

1615-35
Pen and ink; some with wash
18.9 x 11.4in
55.583.1(38)
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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