Collection Highlights
Mrs. Pierre Toussaint (ca. 1786-1851)
Date:
ca. 1825
Object Number:
1920.5
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Advertising kerchief
Object Number:
2002.1.2619
Date:
1910-1940
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
20 x 20 in.
Description:
White silk kerchief printed in red, black and rust with sixteen different pairs of women's shoes, including high button shoes, lace up boots and pumps surrounded by a border of numbers and letters indicating shoe sizes such as "6D 4B 7A". Signed "Brooke Cadwallader".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
