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Object Name: hat

Artist/Maker: Marshall & Snelgrove
Role in production: manufacturer
Place of Creation: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Date: 1928-1930

Accession Number: 1947.4502
Image Copyright: © Manchester City Galleries
Credit: Purchased

Physical Description

Medium / Material
  • straw
  • silk
  • ostrich feather
  • petersham
Support
 
Technique
 
Description

Orange-red woven split straw. Lined with pinkkish-grey atrificial silk. Head hugging rounded crown. Brim sewn on separately, flush with line of crown at left back, bent back and flattened against crown at left side, curving down to right back, bent back again and caught to back of crown in tab passing under left side end. Two scarlet ostrich feathers on brim at right side back. Orange Petersham at CB neck edge and between join of crown and brim at right side.

Dimensions

Type: Front to back
Height:
Width:
Depth: 39.4 cm

Type: Circumference (brim)
Height:
Width: 72.4
Depth: