Pair of Sleeves

1850 - 1870

  • Titles Pair of Sleeves (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton, lace
  • Dimensions (each) 20 × 8 1/2 in. (50.8 × 21.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.1121.1-.2
  • Work Type sleeves
  • Classification Costume

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Bust in profile right in Austrian general's uniform with sash and ermine mantle.
Bust in profile left.
Head of the writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in profile left.
Cast-iron clasp, probably for a necklace, the border pierced with beading, in the middle an oval medallion with a cherub adapted from Raphael's Sistine Madonna, on a polished steel plate.