Robe à l'Anglaise, ca. 1747; altered 1770s, British, silk, metal, Believed to have been worn as a wedding dress in 1747, this

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Robe à l'Anglaise, ca. 1747; altered 1770s, British, silk, metal, Believed to have been worn as a wedding dress in 1747, this gown displays the exquisite patterning of English dress silks of the period, with delicate flowers and asymmetrical cartouches disposed in a graceful meander across an open ground

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