Wedding dress
In 1882, H. B. Ellwanger's book The Rose identified nearly a thousand varieties. However, nineteenthth-century Americans continued to love and cultivate rambling and climbing roses for their informal gardens, prizing their prolific flowering and freedom of growth. Thus, rambling roses in a twiggy pattern with their simpler, wilder bloom grow upward on this wedding dress, rather than cascading downward in the more customary pattern.
Artwork Details
- Title: Wedding dress
- Maker: Mme O'Donovan
- Date: 1889
- Culture: American
- Medium: silk
- Credit Line: Gift of Louise M. Byrne, 1978
- Object Number: 1978.106
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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