Bourne Archive: People: Worth         ©2008 R.J.PENHEY

http://boar.org.uk/abiwxe1Worth(invent.htm Latest edit 27 Jul 2009


The Bourne Archive


Bourne People: Charles Frederick Worth.

Museum Inventory


Bourne Civic Society has mounted a permanent exhibition concerned with the work of Charles Worth, in its heritage centre in Baldock’s Mill, South Street. This page is part of the Bourne Archive, intended to back this up with information designed to help further research. As yet, it is at an early stage, with more gaps than information but as this is gathered, it will be added.


The Hermitage Museum.

Dresses of Empress Maria Fyodorovna (This is a list of French clothing but most is by Worth.)

Visiting dress of Empress Maria Fyodorovna

Visiting dress


The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

1976.258.1a,b Evening dress, 1898–1900. House of Worth Silk. Gift of Eva Drexel Dahlgren in 1976. Fuller details.

 

 

(French, 1858–1956)
(1976.258.1a,b)


National Museums Liverpool.

Garments in store at the Decorative Arts Department of The Walker Art Gallery, a division of National Museums Liverpool. Each description is preceded by the relevant accession number.

Two dresses worn by the Duchess of Roxburghe, formerly the American heiress Miss May Goelet. They were donated to the museum’s costume collection in 1960 by a later Duchess of Roxburghe, the wife of May Goelet's grandson.

60.177.1         Dinner gown of salmon pink velvet, a separate bodice and skirt, the bodice dress-band labelled Worth, Paris, about 1893-95.

60.177.2        Dinner gown of turquoise green satin, silk chiffon and net, a separate bodice and skirt, no label but believed to be by Worth, about 1893-95.

Three dresses worn by Madame Marees van Swinderen, wife of Jonkheer R de Marees van Swinderen, Foreign Minister at The Hague, 1908-13 and Netherlands Minister to the Court of St James, London, 1913-37. Madame Marees van Swinderen was an American from Washington DC, born Elizabeth Glover.

1961.246.7    Princess-line evening dress of pink silk satin, the dress-band labelled Worth, about 1908-10.

1961.246.8   Evening dress of sapphire blue silk velvet and silk georgette, a separate bodice and skirt, the dress-band labelled Worth, about 1911-13.

1961.246.11 Evening coat of midnight blue velvet, the original sable collar and cuffs now removed, labelled Worth, about 1905-08.

 The photograph is of dress 60.177.2 . It was taken for the publicity of the 1984 exhibition; High Society, Formal Dress for Fashionable People, 1875-1920. (Photo: National Museums Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery)

The Liverpool information was kindly given by Pauline Rushton, Curator of Costume and Textiles, Department of Decorative Arts, National Museums Liverpool. (27 October 2008)


 Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

 

 


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