Evening Dress

About 1920

  • Titles Evening Dress (Descriptive)
  • Medium velvet
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ireland, AFI.19.1982.43
  • Work Type dress
  • Classification Costume

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