Design for the Embroidery of a Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Left bottom corner. Rows of flower boughs at the outer edges. The field of the pocket shows plants and a shell with running water, two buttonholes, scrolls. Beneath a duck in water pouring into a shell. Flanked by motifs similar to those in the pocket.
Credit: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
c. 1785
Brush and yellow gouache on glazed tracing paper, laid down on paper
1920-36-321
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020