1760s shoe in Florentine blues Anteater and fastened with a large

and fastened with a large

held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009

held in the John Bright Collection

Embellished with Numerous Plates

Drawn and Described Immediately from Nature

1760s shoe in Florentine blues Anteater and fastened with a largeThis elegant woman's shoe is based on a design from the 1760s; the originals were of painted kid leather. Mine features a buckle in metallic paper, embellished with tiny acrylic rhinestones, each one carefully stitched on by hand. The original shoe is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession 270&A 1891). The shoe is 3. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any