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Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed Back to main page for this exhibition Back to images from this exhibition Court dress, ca. 1750 English Blue silk taffeta brocaded with silver thread The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1965 (CI 65.13.1a–c)

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