The collection

Fan Mount: The Ballet

Edgar Degas · 1879

Watercolor and metallic paint on silk

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Geese and the Approaching Storm

Félix Bracquemond · 1879

Graphite, charcoal, ink, and wash touched with red chalk and lead white (oxidized in places)

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Fan Mount: Dancers

Edgar Degas · 1879

Watercolor and metallic paint on silk

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Claire Campbell

Édouard Manet · 1876

Pastel with oil on fine-weave canvas

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Books and Scholars’ Accoutrements

Yi Taek-gyun · late 1800s

ten-panel folding screen; ink and color on silk

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Manchu Woman's Unofficial Informal Court Robe

China · 1875–1908

Embroidered satin

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Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

Luigi Bevilacqua · 1875/1925

Silk, cotton and gilt strip, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and pile warps forming cut and uncut voided velvet

Panel (from a Dress)

Charles Frederick Worth · 1875/1925

Silk, satin weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut, voided velvet

Utrecht Velvet

William Morris · Design c. 1871

Cotton and silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; stamped

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Shawl

Persia (Iran) · c. 1870

Tapestry weave, wool, needlework

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Jamdani Sari

Bangladesh · 1870

Cotton, metallic thread, supplementary weft patterning

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