Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat
Unfinished design for the left bottom corner of a man's waistcoat. Vegetable fan motifs under the pocket and in the center rof pocket. Leave and plants alternate along the outer edge.
Credit: Gift of Jacob H. Schiff
1780-1790
Pricked, traced, pen and ink, brush and gouache, white on paper
1906-21-226
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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