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6 Men, a Woman, and a Horse
Object/Artifact
Youth in jockey or groom attire, black waist length jacket with green jockeys, collar, lapels and cuffs, white breeches, top boots, jockey cap man astride horse, wearing dark green morning coat and gray pants with Wellingtons and flat crowned hat. Next, back view of a frock coat, knee length, with scalloped vertical side pocket flaps, brown trousers. He addresses a lady in a dark green silk dress trimmed with black ribbon zigzags up the skirt side, beneath a generous black mantle, and a flat black straw hat. Third man wears a fitted brown top coat with brown velvet collar and speckled brown trousers. Fourth in a straight brown overcoat and gray trousers. The last seated on a boulder wears a black boxy coat and light grey-brown trousers with band down the side seam, coat over one arm. Yellow gloves.
2022.35.0342
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
Allgemeine Modenzeitung
1857
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2022.35.0342a 2022.35.0342b
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