Tan Buck or Doe Skin Waistcoat and Fall Flap Knee-breeches
Europe or America, ca. 1780-1820 Buck or Doe Skin with turquoise blue embroidery
Kent State University Museum
Silverman/Rodgers Collection
KSUM 1983.1.2147ab

White Linen Ruffled Shirt
British or European textile, possibly worn on the Connecticut Western Reserve, early 19th century
Collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
WRHS 51.102
Reproduction neck stock

 

These Knee-breeches are similar to those worn in this painting:

 


Lord Elgin Instructing His Protégé

Gavin Hamilton (1723-1798), England, c. 1790-1798
Oil on canvas
Silverman/Rodgers Collection
KSUM 1983.004.0708
44 ½" x 35" framed

 

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