Terms and conditions of use
Sheet music, fancy dress
1906
Medium
cotton, metal, paint
Measurements
(a) 42.5 cm (centre back) 38.0 cm (width) (bodice)
(b) 106.0 cm (centre back) 26.0 cm (waist, flat) (skirt)
(c) 25.5 × 176.8 × 1.0 cm (sash)
(d) 13.0 cm (height) 49.0 cm (circumference) (headpiece)
(e) 24.0 × 48.0 cm (fan)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of David Syme & Co. Limited, Fellow, 1977
Gallery location
18th & 19th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
This charming fancy-dress costume was purchased from a private collector in 1974 as part of a larger group of nineteenth-century garments and accessories. At the time of acquisition, this information was recorded:
This dress was worn to a fancy dress ball at Mena House, Cairo, in 1907 by a Miss Geddes. The dress is accompanied by three photographs of the owner wearing it and a cutting from the Egyptian Gazette of February 20th 1907 describing the ball.
Today the newspaper clipping is lost and this photograph bears the handwritten annotation: ‘1907, under the orange blossom, Bloemfontein (South Africa)’.
Artwork Details
Inscription
(d) inscribed in black paint: c.: 1906
Accession Number
D80.a-e-1977
Department
International Fashion and Textiles
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest