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Photo Of Evening Dress

This is a Photo of Evening Dress. It was made for (as the client) Eleanor Garnier Hewitt. It is dated ca. 1882. Its medium is silk. It is a part of the department.

This evening gown was designed for Eleanor for a formal evening event. In a 1931 Vogue article titled “The Undying Quality of Style,” friend Caroline King Duer described the Hewitts’ fashion collection: “In the Hewitt family, their costumes were carefully preserved: opera-cloaks, ball-dresses, dinner gowns, outdoor costumes of all kinds—the wardrobes of these New York Ladies were all put away, year after year, to make the very interesting collection left by the Misses Hewitt to their niece, Princess Viggo, for distribution to various museums.”

It is credited Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the Princess Viggo in accordance with the wishes of the Misses Hewitt, 1931, 2009.300.635a,b.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Sarah & Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum.

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