About This Artwork

France

Dalmatic, c. 1785

Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:3 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and self-patterning ground wefts; braid and edge tape of silvered-metal strip and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and cotton, bobbin straight lace; ribbons of silk, plain weave; lined with cotton, plain weave; glazed
109.3 x 112 cm (43 x 44 in.)
Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment, 1993.325

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Gloria in Excelsis Deo: Heralding a Vestment Collection," September 11, 1996–January 12, 1997