Exhibition

Silhouettes of Style: Fashions from the Martha McCaskey Selhorst Collection 
Higbee Gallery,
June 17, 1998 - June 4, 2000
Anne Bissonnette, Curator

  


Day dress with evening bodice English

ca. 1860-1865
White silk taffeta brocade, with interchangeable evening bodice 
Kent State University Museum 
Gift of Martha McCaskey Selhorst
KSUM 1996.058.0234a-d 

From Astley House, the country home of the Cavendish family Yorkshire, England

Portrait of Miss Mansell, c.1860-65
Richard Buckner English, active ca.1830-1890 
Oil on canvas 
Kent State University Museum 
The Shannon Rodgers Collection
KSUM
1983.004.0562

 

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