ID: 700000378 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000378	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Dress (Round Gown) (round gown; unknown Italian; ca. 1795; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 1979.20a–e, g; )

Note: By the 1790s, the structure of clothing was undergoing dramatic change. This afternoon dress in the form of a round gown, cut without a center front opening in the skirt, steadfastly keeps up appearances and can pass for eighteenth-century opulence, especially in its colors and textile richness. But the high-waisted dress, spencer, corset, and separate sleeves constitute a new anatomy, one that anticipates the century to come. This shape would be renewed in the 1880s and 1890s, as one fin de siècle recapitulated the preceeding fin de siècle.

Titles:

Dress (Round Gown) (preferred,C,U,D,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

round gown [300253745] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Costume (hierarchy name), costume (mode of fashion), clothing, main garments, dresses (garments), <dresses by form>, gowns)

Classifications:

costume / clothing (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1795

Creator Display:

unknown Italian [preferred,VP]

dressmaker unknown Italian (Italian cultural designation) [500125250]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1979.20a–e, g

Credit Line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1979

Display Materials: silk, linen

	silk (textile) [300243428]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by composition or origin>)

	linen (material) [300014069]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by composition or origin>)

Dimensions: Length (a): 146.1 cm (57 1/2 in.)

Cultures:

Italian (preferred)

General Subject:

apparel (preferred,isness)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: decorative and utilitarian works

Sources and Contributors:
Dress (Round Gown)	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 21 May 2012

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)