Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
N.d.
Notes:
This sash is believed to be the one worn by George Washington in the portrait by Charles Willson Peale (pictured here) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is one of the many cultural items that the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Harvard University, acquired in 1899 from Moses Kimball's Boston Museum. Kimball and P. T. Barnum jointly purchased many of the Peale collections when they were sold about 1849.
Dimensions:
Overall: 202.803 × 10.2 cm (79 13/16 × 4 in.)
Repository:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Harvard University
