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About this object

  • ID:

    A7559

  • Production date:

    1766-1775

  • Location:

    In Store

  • This fawn-coloured coat and matching waistcoat (c. 1765-1775) are made of broad cloth, a woollen fabric woven on a wide loom. Broad cloth was not always of exactly the same width. The Universal Magazine recorded in 1764: 'Burstall is a little town, noted for the manufacture of a Broad-cloth, so called to distinguish it from kerseys, druggets, & though the cloths of this country are all called narrow at London, when compared with the broad-cloths made in the West of England'.  < ...Read more

  • Measurements

    L 1100 mm (coat), L 770 mm (waistcoat), L 670 mm; C 370 mm (breeches), L 470 mm (skirt), C 1020 (chest), C 1005 mm (waist), C 1120 mm (hips), L 110 mm; C 290 mm (cuff)

  • Materials

    cloth; silver

  • Last Updated

    2024-03-14

FURTHER INFORMATION
  • NUMBER OF ITEMS

    2

  • STATUS

    permanent collection

  • CREDIT

    Seymour Lucas Collection

  • COPYRIGHT HOLDER

    digital image copyright Museum of London

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