About this artwork
Anna Maria Garthwaite is one of only a handful of 18th-century designers of woven silks whose names we know today. Her carefully annotated drawings reveal her intimate understanding of weaving technology, though we know little of how she became a professional designer. Her naturalistic and delicate floral fabrics have come to epitomize English taste of the mid-18th century.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Artists
- Anna Maria Garthwaite (Designer) , Daniel Vautier (Weaver)
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Title
- Skirt Panel
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Places
- England (Object made in), Spitalfields (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1749
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Medium
- Silk, plain weave foundation with supplementary patterning warps and supplementary brocading wefts
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Dimensions
- 114.7 × 51 cm (45 1/8 × 20 1/8 in.) Warp repeat: 66.1 cm (26 in.)
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Credit Line
- Mildred L. Davison Memorial Fund
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Reference Number
- 1995.388
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/143682/manifest.json
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