The young lady in this painting is tightly holding on to a pocket containing here money or other things of value to her. She would generally wear this pocket under her pettie coates tied around her waist and slip her hand through a slit at either side of of the pettie coats to enter the hidden pocket. young ladies looking to impress a prospectant future husband would emroider a sampler of alphabets and numbers along with a scene and designes and wear them on the outside of her pettie coats to inicate that she can sew and read and write. After marriage she would then wear them again under her pettie coats.
The Pocket
18 x 24 oval canvas
oil
Price: $210.00
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