Ball gown
The Silhouette Timeline traces how dress silhouettes change across the decades of the Costume Institute collection, drawn from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection API (CC0) and refreshed monthly. Every record links its museum object page and carries garment family, era, season and significance labels; objects are described as cataloged, never appraised or priced.
- Object
- Ball gown
- Accession number
- 1998.253.2a, b
- Date
- ca. 1880
- Makers
- —
- Medium
- silk
- Dimensions
- —
- Classification
- —
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Culture
- British
- Credit line
- Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, Isabel Shults Fund and Millia Davenport and Zipporah Fleisher Fund, 1998
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- House
- —
- Garment family
- evening
- Era
- Bustle era (1870–1889)
- Season
- —
- Material family
- silk