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Design for the Embroidery of a Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf

Left bottom corner. Rows of flower boughs at the outer edges. The field of the pocket shows plants and a shell with running water, two buttonholes, scrolls. Beneath a duck in water pouring into a shell. Flanked by motifs similar to those in the pocket.

Credit: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt

c. 1785
Brush and yellow gouache on glazed tracing paper, laid down on paper
1920-36-321
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020

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