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Dress Fabric Fragment
Dress Fabric Fragment

Dress Fabric Fragment

Original OwnerOriginally owned by Parnel Tully American, 1732 - 1796
Textile MakerMade by Unknown
Date1750-1785
MediumHand-painted cotton
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (greatest height x greatest width of triangular fragment): 7 x 4 3/16in. (17.8 x 10.6cm)
ClassificationsCostume
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionCream-colored cotton dress fragment with a hand-painted floral pattern. The pattern includes large red, pink, and white flowers on yellow-brown stems, and small purple and white flowers.
Object number2005.151.1
InscribedAn inscription in black ink on the fragment reads, "A piece of/ Parnel Tullys/ dress- who was born in Saybrook/ June 25 1732/ and died/ Spet 1st/ 1796".
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