The Promenade
Vertical rectangle, bevelled corners. A couple promenading arm in arm viewed frontally. Woman dressed in a silk hoop skirt with a hip-length black velvet jacket; man in afternoon clothes, high silk hat. At right, view from the back of a male figure walking in opposite direction.
Credit: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
c. 1858
Brush and blue and gray wash, pen and brown ink on paper
1938-57-97
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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