Smithsonian American Art Museum
Portrait of a Gentleman
Alvan Clark, born Ashfield, MA 1804-died Cambridge, MA 1887 · 1836-1844
This unknown gentleman is wearing a wide-collared frock coat and white satin cravat. In 1837, the Gentleman’s Magazine of Fashion described a white cravat as “almost indispensable in full dress” and it was sometimes tied to cover the entire shirtfront.
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