Gloves
(1900-1930)
- Medium
- kid, pearl
- Measurements
- (a) 28.0 × 6.2 cm (left glove)
(b) 28.5 × 6.4 cm (right glove) - Place/s of Execution
- England
- Inscription
- (b) stamped in ink inside back of wrist: 42
- Accession Number
- D167.a-b-1978
- Department
- International Fashion and Textiles
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs Anderson, 1978 - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
-
‘What a shame Aunt Pitty had no other gloves than the ones now on her fat hands! No woman could really feel like a lady without gloves, but Scarlett had not had a pair since she left Atlanta. And the long months of hard work at Tara had roughened her hands until they were far from pretty. Well, it couldn’t be helped. She’d take Aunt Pitty’s little seal muff and hide her bare hands in it ... No one, looking at her now, would suspect that poverty and want were standing at her shoulder.’
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (1936) - Physical description
- Lady's gloves, in cream kid, topstitched with three rows of stitching on back of hand with four pearl buttons.