Corset

American

1740–60

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 099

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Exhibition History

Title: Corset
Date: 1740–60
Culture: American
Medium: linen, leather, whalebone
Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the Jason and Peggy Westerfield Collection, 1969
Object Number: 2009.300.3330
Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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