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Anna Maria Garthwaite

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collection, match one of her extant watercolor designs. A gown currently preserved at Colonial Williamsburg was made sometime between 1775 and 1785 with the silk lampas that Garthwaite designed in 1726-28, which was passed down in an American family for around fifty years and reused for three
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in 1728, and Anna Maria created over 1000 designs for woven silks there over the next three decades. Some 874 of her original designs in watercolour from the 1720s through 1756 have survived and are now in the collection of the
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technique developed by the French silk designer Jean Revel in the 1730s for representing near-three-dimensional floral patterns through careful shading, and her designs included large-scale
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with her twice-widowed sister Mary from 1726 to 1728. They relocated to a house in Princes Street (now Princelet Street) in the silk-weaving district of
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at this time, and can be contrasted with French silks of the period which show stylised flowers and more harmonious, if unrealistic, colourations.
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Surviving 18th century English slks, several designed by Anna Maria Garthwaite, in the Abegg Foundation collection in Switzerland
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Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century: In the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, With a Complete Catalogue
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of 1751 listed Garthwaite as one of three designers who had "introduced the Principles of Painting into the loom."
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Garthwaite has been called the "pre-eminent silk designer of her period". Malachy Postlethwayt (c. 1707–1767) in
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Garthwaite's work is closely associated with the mid-18th century fashion for flowered woven silks in the
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in 1746 wearing a gown of English silk damask woven to a surviving 1743 design by Anna Maria Garthwaite.
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Surviving dress of silk designed by Anna Maria Garthwaite, at the Albany Institute of History and Art
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in 1998 marks the house at 2 Princelet Street, Spitalfields, E1, where Garthwaite lived and worked.
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The Victoria and Albert Museum's Textile Collection: Woven Textile Design in Britain 1750 to 1850
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The Victoria and Albert Museum's Textile Collection: Woven Textile Design in Britain to 1750
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generations before being assembled into the wedding dress that is now in their collection.
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have survived, and silks based on these designs have been identified in portraiture and in
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Anna Maria Garthwaite was the daughter of the Reverend Ephraim Garthwaite (1647–1719) of
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Silk brocade designed by Anna Maria Garthwaite, 1748, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Banta, Andaleeb Badiee; Greist, Alexa; Christensen, Theresa Kutasz (5 January 2023).
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Surviving sleeved waistcoat, 1747, patterned silk designed by Anna Maria Garthwaite
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Her will dated 1758 was read 24 October 1763, at Princes Street in the parish of
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have been attributed to Garthwaite, because the panels, which are housed in the
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Rothstein, Natalie: "Silk in the Early Modern Period". In David Jenkins, ed.:
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Spitalfields silks were widely exported to Northern Europe and especially to
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Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century: From the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World
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Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World
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gives Anna Maria's baptism date as 14 March 1688/89, which would be 1689
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Christ Church, Spitalfields, Register of burials, Mary 1748 – Sep 1764
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From Fabulous to Frump: The Changing Fashions of Martha Washington
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Kraak, Deborah E.: "Eighteenth-century English floral silks." In
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Meandering floral vines design attributed to Garthwaite, ca 1740.
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Freshman, Philip, Dorothy J. Schuler, and Barbara Einzig, eds.:
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Detail of a brocaded design of peonies, lilies, and roses, 1744.
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Rothstein, Natalie: "The Elegant Art of Woven Silk". In
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Deitz, Paula: "Discovered Along the Flowered-Silk Road",
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2 Princelet Street Spitalfields London E1, with plaque
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Harston, Leicestershire

Philadelphia
Robert Feke
Harston, Leicestershire
textile designer
fabrics
woven
Spitalfields
watercolours
costume
Grantham
York
Spitalfields
City of London
Victoria and Albert Museum
waistcoat woven to one of Garthwaite's designs
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Roccoco
asymmetrical
damasks
brocades
botanical illustration
Britain
Colonial America
Navigation Acts
skirt
Martha Dandridge
George Washington

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