Dress

1810–20
Not on view
"There is only one way for the moderns to become great and perhaps unequalled: by imitating the Ancients," declared Johann Joachim Winckelmann, prophet and propagandist for Neoclassicism. New democracies, with their idealism, were vehemently and visibly expressed in quotidian form in statuary-emulating dress.

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Object Information
  • Title: Dress
  • Date: 1810–20
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: linen
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Frank O. Bowman, 1964
  • Object Number: C.I.64.61.1
  • Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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