1893.79.3.1-2

Collection type

Object

Description

Lady's satin shoes

Long description

elaborately ornamented with narrow silk braid. The large heel is shaped and high and covered with satin. the sole curves round to form the inside of the heel. The tongue is cut with the toe upper over which cross the straps of the heel and sides upper which is lined with fine white leather

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

England

Cultural groups

English

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Emma Swann

Date / Period

Date made: 1700-1750

Date collected

By 1893

Acquisition information

Purchased: 1893

Materials and processes

Material Silk Textile Animal, Material Satin Textile, Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Woven

Dimensions

Length 220 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1893.79.3.1-2

Research and responses

Please note that according to the Donor Index cards at the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities, this object [Ashm Number 1893.205] was donated by Miss Emma Swann of Walton Manor, Woodstock Road, Oxford. She donated objects to the Ashmolean in 1889, 1893, and 1894. She is listed as the neice of Professor Westwood. It is probable that 'Professor Westwood' refers to Professor John Obadiah Westwood, the 1st Hope professor of Zoology and Fellow of Magdalen. [L.Ph 26/3/2004]

This could be the Miss Swann of 141 Woodstock Road [Oxford] who was a member of the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire from October 1894 or the Miss E.L. Swann of the same address [and therefore possibly the same person] who joined the same society in March 1898. Westwood was a member of the same society [AP 31/10/2002]

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