Collection Highlights
Shrewsbury River, New Jersey
Date:
1859
Object Number:
S-229
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Officer's summer dress waistcoat
Object Number:
Z.2723
Date:
1855-1900
Medium:
Linen, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 16 1/4 x 21 in. ( 2.5 x 41.3 x 53.3 cm )
Marks:
stamped: reverse of each button: "SUPERIOR / (illeg.)"
handwritten: reverse of waistcoat, right strap beneath shoulder blade: "Wm Smith U.S.A."
Description:
White linen Paymaster General's summer waistcoat with 1" stand-up collar; front made of duck cloth, with 9 buttons down the front, all buttons cast with shield-breasted eagle clutching arrows and branches in its talons, surrounded with stars, shanks of the buttons secured to waistcoat with coils of metal wire, 3 pockets on the front; reverse is made of plain weave linen, with 2 sets of adjustable straps, one set which ties below the shoulder blades, the other set at the waistline which buckles at the center onto rectangular buckle with double-tongued chape; lined with white plain weave linen.
Gallery Label:
This waistcoat was worn by Paymaster General William Smith.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
