Skip to main content Skip to footer

About this object

  • ID:

    51.20/1

  • Production date:

    1790

  • Location:

    In Store

  • This dress and petticoat are made of very fine Indian muslin, a loosely woven cotton fabric. In line with the general simplification of clothing, the popularity of silks and brocades declined during the 1770s in favour of cotton textiles. The finest muslin was imported from India, but from the late 1780s British manufacturer tried to copy the Indian imports, at first without much success. The cotton traders Peter Drinkwater and John Hilton wrote in 1786:  < ...Read more

  • Measurements

    L 1380 mm (dress back), L 56 mm (sleeve), 350 mm (shoulders), C 740 mm (bust), C 600 mm (waist), C 1180 mm (hips), H 37 mm; H 37 mm; C 170 mm (cuff)

  • Materials

    cotton; muslin; linen

  • Last Updated

    2024-03-14

FURTHER INFORMATION
  • NUMBER OF ITEMS

    3

  • STATUS

    permanent collection

  • COPYRIGHT HOLDER

    digital image copyright Museum of London

?

Record quality:

What is this?

Not every record in Collections Online is complete. Some have low quality images designed purely for recognition, while some have been catalogued only to a basic standard. This graphic is designed to give you an impression of the quality of data you can see. 100% meets all our current data standards and has a high quality image, 20% is a basic record with no image. Individual record quality can change over time as new photography is carried out and records are worked on.

X