hat
Summary
Round hat for a boy with slightly upturned brim and slightly convex crown; blue silk satin ribbon round crown with silvered metal decorative buckle; lined brown silk and figured cream silk (an eighteenth century dress silk). Very similar to the hat worn by Benjamin Way in the 1779 pastel portrait of Benjamin and Lewis Way by John Downman (1750-1824) in the Maitland Collection.
Object Name
hat
Date Created
1775-1800
Dimensions
L: 26.5cm
accession number
2008.142
Collection Group
Place of creation
England
Medium
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