Cloth Fragment
- Object Name:
- Cloth Fragment
- Object ID:
- 2017.500.13
- Place of Origin:
- France
- Date:
- 1770-1780
- Description:
- Fragment of yellow silk with floral pattern. Sewn to paper card along top edge. Card inscribed in ink, "A piece of / drapery from the / boudoir of Marie Antoinette / Wife of Louis 16th of France / (Presented by Mrs. Walter Mitchell 1893)".
- Material:
- Textile
Silk - Dimensions:
- W-1.8 L-4.5 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 20 objects in collection of relics found in first-floor classroom in New Hampshire Historical Society building at 6 Eagle Square (Hamel Center), Concord, in 2017. Acquired by NHHS education department c. 2010 from an unidentified New Hampshire school teacher who was visiting the museum with a class.
All of the inscriptions appear to date from the 1890s. Four of the objects were given to the collector by Mrs. Leroy S. Brown (Geneva May Philbrick Brown) (1855-1947) of Cambridge, MA; she lived in Cambridge from 1884 to 1906. - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- People:
- Antoinette, Marie (1755-1793)
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